My 93yr old father fell in Sept, spent 12 days at home in pain because ER would not admit him and finally thru social service help he was admitted to rehab until Oct 28, 2014. He is now home in our care and the nights are the worst. He doesn't know where he is at, moving around taking depends off and removing tube from cath bag. I am on constant alert all night to hear if he is on the move without his walker. Constipation and fissure pain have now taken over the back pain for sure. No appetite, very hard to get him to drink water, etc. I am thinking he should be weaned off methadone and some mental health changes might reverse. During the day, he does seem to make sense and watch tv and listen to talk radio. I have brother who has MS in the house also, so I am totally on overload right now. I myself had to have arthroscopic knee surgery on Oct 22, so I am trying to get well myself. This fall has taken us to a new level of care and I am seriously thinking about him living somewhere with all these new conditions and symptoms. Any thoughts please??
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But, methadone can in fact increase confusion and constipation and they ought to have a plan to wean it off and provide some other pain control, e.g. injections, or less sedating meds...and for heaven's sake, they should at least have given and Rx for Miralax, or that new wonder drug to reverse opiate induced constipation if its covered.
And maybe you have options to get some home health or aide help?
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