This one is new to me and I thought perhaps to enter our experience for others so they might consider it if necessary. My DH became very agitated and mean and hallucinating during a visit from my son's family. Granted, it was a lot of upheaval with two babies and my son is a handful as well. Very excited to be visiting after four years in Italy and toys and constant movement with the 2 1/2 year old. After they left, I could not get him to settle and finally went to the neurologist to adjust meds again. We decided to cut out the Ambien and add Seroquel. All good, it made an immediate good adjustment and all was well until perhaps a week later when he started sleeping more and more and just could not get up from bed sometimes until 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Then he started sweating profusely at night to the point we both had to change pjs in the night. Also at this time diarrhea was becoming an issue although he didn't complain too much about it but I noticed he was going a lot and he would hide his underwear in the laundry room after not quite making it in time to the john. I decided after three weeks of it becoming more and more noticeable to go to our PC Doctor and after going over his meds and discussing the history of the past three weeks, he had the thought that perhaps the Lexapro and Seroquel were causing Seritonin Syndrome. Since I felt we needed the Seroquel, we decided to phase out the Lexapro and see what happened. After two weeks of titrating out the Lexapro, we are back to an almost normal existence, except for the Alzheimers, of course. I forgot to mention we first did a stool sample which went to the lab for three different tests, which means I had to collect samples in three little bottles and that was a new experience as well. I get squeamish raking the cat box. But those test all came back normal so that also pointed to the medication being the culprit somehow. Any way, wondered if anyone else has had this or experienced something similar.
My LO did this a year ago when our son and his three children and wife came to visit for about 10 days. It was just too much, too many people, too much movement, I think. I could see him getting more and more nervous, pacing, angry. Then, when we were all coming out of Wal-Mart, he announced that he was going to go into our woods and shoot himself. I immediately took him on over to his VA doc and he put my husband into the hospital psych ward. The company finally left, stayed another few days, and the VA doc changed my LO's meds. He came back home after another week. Our son and his wife never connected that it was having company that upset my husband's schedule and that caused the hospitalization. I guess I'll have to ask anyone coming to visit to stay in a motel and that will solve the problem. I'm not sure how that will go over but it is probably necessary. I tend to think CG is frequently a problem solving job as much as anything.