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Help me help my mom
These are her current meds:
🗓️ Medication Schedule
🌅 Morning
• Fanapt 4 mg – 1 tablet
• Metformin HCl 1000 mg – 1 tablet
• Trifluoperazine HCl 10 mg – ½ tablet
• Benztropine Mesylate 1 mg – 1 tablet
• Xanax 2 mg – 1 tablet
• Losartan Potassium 100 mg – 1 tablet
• Vitamin B12 1000 mcg – 1 tablet
• Clonidine 0.1 mg – 1 tablet
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☀️ Afternoon
• Benztropine Mesylate 1 mg – 1 tablet
• Xanax 2 mg – 1 tablet
• Clonidine 0.1 mg – 1 tablet
• Ibuprofen 800 mg (PRN) – as needed
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🌙 Night (Bedtime)
• Fluvoxamine Maleate 100 mg – 3 tablets
• Fanapt 4 mg – 1 tablet
• Doxepin 100 mg – 2 capsules
• Doxepin HCl 50 mg – 1 capsule (taken with 200 mg dose)
• Trifluoperazine HCl 10 mg – 1 tablet
• Benztropine Mesylate 1 mg – 1 tablet
• Xanax 2 mg – 1 tablet
• Metformin HCl 1000 mg – 1 tablet
• Lipitor 40 mg – 1 tablet
She recently went to the hospital after being prescribed Methocarbamol 1000 mg 4×/day and a z pack for back pain. Her symptoms were slurring, confusion, dizziness, and her face look mildly swollen. She’s 65. The ER ruled out strokes or anything else but noted she’s dehydrated.
Did she have a bad interaction from the added meds? Is this list way too many sedatives? I want to ask her doctors to reduce something if I can. It seems like so many to me and her PCP and Psych docs don’t have access to each other’s stuff besides what my mom tells them.
u/Scared_Turnip4366 — 18 hours ago