My husband would be perfectly happy staying in bed until 10 am or maybe more. If I don't have any reason to get him up earlier, I get him up at 9. It takes about 1.5 hours to get him from bed through toileting and showering and dressing down to eat "breakfast",then he sits there for a couple of hours until after lunch,usually until 2 pm. He doesn't doze at all through this and is willing to go out in the car, or watch a movie, in the afternoon. At five we start the dinner rituals, and he goes up to bed around seven. But might this be bad for him to be in bed so long?
briegull we are finding they tend to be seated or sleeping more and more. i have put the temperpedic cushions on the couch and our beds and where he stays to make sure hes comfy and not at risk for bedsore issues. all you can do is make sure hes clean and get him up for a bit to exercise if possible to keep the blood flow in tact. massage his legs arms when possible if hes prone for a while. and i use the shower hose sprayer as some massage therapy as well and he enjoys that alot now. i don tthink we have much recourse they are going to be sleeping more and more as the move further into this. divvi
I'm keeping an eye on his skin. No problems so far. He has a bum leg with poor circulation - veins stripped out many years ago, wears a compression stocking, so I'm always wary of that one having problems. But the heel of the OTHER foot started being pink and sore, right where it hits the bed. I asked on here and got all kinds of advice. Bought a lambs-fleece half-slipper to put on it at night. Bought a strange contraption of styrofoam and straps. Both of them he managed to turn around so they ended up on the TOP of his foot, hence useless.
Then I got some heel balm from the drugstore and religiously massage it into both feet every night. THAT has stopped the irritation!!
Yes, I keep an eye on his backside too, since I help him shower daily.
I wish my husband would sleep more. He is in a nursing home and spends most of his days in a merry walker. They put him down and he gets right back up and has to go back into the walker because he can not walk without falling. He is getting a sore on his bottom that is not a pressure sore but a friction sore from walking sideways in the walker and it is rubbing.
I have noticed that my DH does better when he gets more sleep. He takes Namenda and Sertraline about 8.00 in the morning as well as a couple of other pills not realted to AD. About 8.00 in the evening he takes Namenda and Aricept. Most days he goes back to bed in the morning and the afternoon and can sleep anywhere from one to two hours and is more functional when he is up and about. Yesterday he was in and out of the bedroom saying he couldn't sleep and was coming up with things that never happened. Today he took his pills at 8.00 and then went back to bed for an hour and 45 minutes,he is now taking a shower so I am waiting to see if he is "with it" today.
Does it make a difference if they don't take the pills at the same time each day?
Jean, sometimes on the weekends (when I don't go to work and therefore no routine) he doesn't get his morning pills for a couple of hours later than he does during the week. I haven't noticed any big difference.
One day I went back to the bathroom and found his cup of pills still there from the day before - I had gotten them out and forgot to give them to him!!!! AND we didn't see a difference in missing that one day either.......it hasn't happened again, thank goodness!
Thanks Mary, I will ask DH if he wants to take his A.M pills when he wakes up...I usually wake him at 8.00. So far he has been fine today and he has now gone back to bed at 2.00pm! I don't mind him sleeping, I would rather he do that than hallucinate.
SInce this got brought ttt I will update you on the heel problem. The balm helped, but then I bought a heel insert for his shoe that's made for heel spurs (at the local med supplies pharmacy) and that has really done the trick. It wasn't the outside that was hurting, it was the inside, and he's been a happy camper on THAT foot ever since.
My hb takes his galantamine at different times. If he remembers it is usually around 11 am as he sleeps until 9 or 10 but doesn't get until 11 when Young and Restless comes on. there have been days he forgot and I see them sitting there in the evening, so he takes them then. Never seemed to make a difference. but then he doesn't repeat pills (like yours does with the Namenda), so whether taking the dosages close together will have any affect, I don't know. I know it did make my hb 'foggy brained' and tired so maybe having them too close together could cause this.
I asked DH last night if he wanted to take his pills when he got up. Big mistake! He asked when he would take them, I told him when you get up. This went on for about 15 minutes so I finally told him to forget it we would just keep it the way we've been doing it. It is getting harder trying to have a "normal" conversation with him so I will just not bring anything up and make the decisions myself. I now have to explain the basketball games to him!!!!!