Scopolamine hospice
Common Questions and Answers about Scopolamine hospice
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What is the best way to wean off the scopolamine patch in an elderly person? Can we use the cream instead and slowly increase the time between use?
I recently went on a a 7 day cruise and wore the scopolamine patch from the first day and changed at 3 days. A total of 2 patches. I removed the patch the day I got home within 24 hours of removal I became very ill vomiting and nauseated. This continured throughout the next day. I called the Dr. and she told me to take dramamine. I remembered I had one patch left so I applied the patch again. Within 3 hours I was feeling better and that next day began to feel better.
I've been diagnosed with labyrinthitis and have been wearing a scopolamine patch for the past 4 weeks. I've heard to cover 1/4, then 1/2, and then 3/4 of the patch to wean off avoid withdrawal. I'm 48 hours into covering 1/4 of the patch and i have a horrible headache, dizzy, and nauseated. Any help, tips, welcome. I just want to be able to go to work and take care of my kids like a normal person again.
Has anyone with scopolamine patch withdrawal just tried to go cold turkey and tough it out? IF so, how long did it take you to feel better?
I was put on a scopolamine patch in Sept.'10 and have been wearing it fr the last 8 months. It is pute HELL everytime I try to get off of it. The Dr.s have diagnosed me with Meniere's Disease but I can't get off the patch for them to do definitive testing. My Dr. has put me on an oral for of scopolamine but if I am even an hour or two late taking my dose I am deathly ill. And each tinme I get sick it is worse than the time beforel.
Hi Gina,
It is definitely from the scopolamine. I have been on 16 cruises and everytime I have stopped the scopolamine I have the same symptoms of extreme fatigue. The first 24 hours after I stopped the medication there was no problem, but when I awoke the next day I was really out of it. I do not suffere from the nausea or headache that you have encountered. It usually subsides after about 6 weeks.
It seems clear that the meclizine taper is the way to go to get off of the transdermal scopolamine patch and I will attempt it. In this scenario, from what I've read, Zofran does not appear to be an essential part of the taper. I have also read elsewhere on the web (not only here) that lamictal together with magnesium sulfate is sometimes used to combat the withdrawal symptoms. I saw one person mentioned lamictal but rejected it as a possible solution.
Here is my question.
I was wondering if you all have any tips for avoiding sickness post-surgery. Did the scopolamine patch work for you? Zofran? I would love any advice to ease my mind! Thanks so much!!
I am a Hospice/Palliative care Registered Nurse. As our "baby boomers" age, we have a need for basic knowledge in how to know when to consider Palliative and/or Hospice Care. Professionals like myself, a Hospice Nurse has the better knowledge as to the hands on assistance that enrollment in a Palliative Care Program or a Hospice Program can give.
D-tubocurarine, scopolamine, decamethonium, resperpine.
X-Ray Contrasts and Agents: Radiographic dyes, gallamine.
Venoms: Snakebites, bee stings, jellyfish stings.
Histamine Containing Foods: Parmesan, Blue, and Roquefort cheeses, spinach, eggplant, some red wine, tuna, mackeral, bonita, skipjack.
Histamine Releasing Foods: Ethanol, egg white, crustaceans (crayfish, lobsters), chocolate, strawberries, tomatoes, citrus.
Her Doctor said she could no longer live alone, and my parents decided to take her in. The Doctor advised hospice. Hospice workers came to my parents house, and told my parents that they should not call 911 if my Grandmother has another heart attack, that they should help my Grandmother die comfortably at home. My parents do not want to do this, they are not comfortable with that. When they voiced their concerns, they were overridden by the hospice worker.
Just read a post where you said you were a trained hospice volunteer. I'm wondering if you can help me understand hospice better. My mom (91) had alzheimers and was in a facility. Last Sept they suggested hospice because she had stopped eating.
the doctor has us contact hospice on an in home basis early this month he is still able to get around and he goes out occassionally in the mornings. They are asking me if i think he needs to be on hospice or if I wan to tka ehim off until he gets worse. I dont kow what to do I'm frightened he almost died two weeks ago and they gave him four units of blood.
If an underlying cause is not found, anticholinergic medication can help, such as atropine, scopolamine, or even benadryl. The blood in your sputum is concerning, this needs to be checked by your doctor since that does not commonly accompany sialorrhea.
I went on a cruise this past weekend and decided to try the scopolamine motion sickness patch.
I removed the patch after wearing it for a day and a half because I noticed my right eye had fully dilated.
Its unclear if my eye was directly infected by me touching the patch and then my eye or if this was just a side effect (i don't remember touching my eye).
My right eye has been dilated for four days now, each day going down a little.
Zofran 8 mg that dissolve and scopolamine patches the only thing that saved me.
When the fistual appeared 3 weeks ago her oncologist advised us to call Hospice. We did, they came, and an RN immediately said she was going to die of septicemia. We were preparing for her death. 8 days later, due to lack of experience and professionalism, a different Hospice organization came in and immediately diagnosed the "hole in her stomach"as a fistula and that her death was not as imminent as we were told by the previous Hospice.
How did you know it was time for hospice? And, if someone has used hospice for someone with liver failure, how did they help? I have a great family and my husband is greatly loved and cared for. We pray he gets better, but I am not seeing it. How do I know what is best for him? Or is keeping him here with family the best I can do to support him?
He is 78 and is now in hospice hospital. H just started getting worse as far as weekness goes. He wont eat much, drink either but, the man still goes to the bathroom on his walker with help. Because of him doing that they may make him go out of the hospice because he is the only patient that can go potty still and walk a little. He gets so tired after he goes he cant hardly stay awake all day..
In my case my Dad had congestive heart failure, was put on hospice care, stabilized and came off hospice after 6 months. The next year they found cancer throughout his body, was put back on hospice care.
He so wanted to die at home and we did all we could to care for him. It reached a point that the stress from my Mom's behavior and the extreme fatigue of caring for him wore us out. He agreed to go to a hospice facility for just a few days to give us all a break.
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