Still no diagnosis?

The doctors and hospital staff still have no diagnosis.  We really want to know what is going on with my mom.

The "seizure" type things are apparently not seizures.  However, I don't know to explain her being completely unresponsive, shaking, and even sometimes drooling or foaming at the mouth.  Briana and I were very scared when we saw that happening on Tuesday.

Thankfully, she will have orders for physical therapy, home health care, and a bed side commode.  However, I don't think even all those things are going to help.

I just don't like this "possible discharge" without them finding anything.

We were looking at withdrawal symptoms of Paxil (Paroxetine), and while my mom is taking it, the things that make her complain seem to be the same as the symptoms for withdrawal and addiction to Paxil.  She gets hot and cold.  She gets headaches.  She has panic attacks.  She sometimes has sharp pains suddenly in places of her body.  At times, she has had suicidal thoughts. She gets nauseous.

Paxil says that you should not take any other antidepressant medications with it.  The trochees that she has been taking, Clonazepam, are also used as antidepressant medication and that means that they and Paxil should not be used together.

Then, things got worse when she switched from Detrol L.A. to Oxybutynin, too.  I really wish they could just find something and make it all better.

I miss my mom that made sense.  Even if it were just my mom that fell about once a week and was dizzy the rest of the days, but made sense - I miss that mom.  She's not been around for months.

The one thing this has definitely made me decide is that I am NOT going to take any antidepressants unless they are going to save my life!  I don't want to have any of the horrible addiction that they can cause.

I'm not one of those people who insists on things being natural and I am glad for doctors and medicines that help us.  I understand that some people really need antidepressants to function, but it is better if they don't.

On a not so serious note, maybe my mom should smoke marijuana!  She'd not be so depressed and she'd eat!  Heck, maybe we just need to put her in a room filled with marijuana smoke - just put her in a room where others are smoking marijuana.