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Originally Posted by brlove
I am new to this disease process. My brother has rsds and is on a lot of pain medications. I love him very much.
I am becoming concerned because i keep finding him passed out in the house, example laying in the kitchen floor with the fridge open, or sitting on couch completely bent over with his face on his thighs, my water company called me to tell me i had a leak, a $100 worth of water leak, but i have no leak, he turns the faucet on and forgets that he did it, etc. This has been going on for quite some time now. There is no family able to stay with him 24 hours a day and i am becoming concerned for his safety and the safety of my home. Any comments or suggestions, experiences would be very helpful. Thank You.
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Hi brlove,
Nice to meet you.
Well I would say your brother is taking to much medication. Or he is having sometype of reaction to whatever he is taking. But my instinct tells me it's the first. I'm assuming he is seeing a doctor of some sort for his medications? If this has been going on for some time as you said it's not going to be easy to find out what's going on. I would first ask him straight out what's going on, I feel the honest way is the best, then I would check his meds and see what he is taking the dosage and write it all down. I hate to me negative but if he's abusing he will not take well to someone trying to intrude in his habit. So walk softly. Then if you think he is abusing then he will have to be confronted. I have had RSD for 7 years and have learned the less medication the better at least in my situation. Medications for the long term with make your pain worse. My PM doctor is big on not to much meds. and really made me and helped me get get off all medications once my RSD was under control. I did 3 - 5 day inpatient ketamine treatments, no fun either. But it did do the job so I was able to get the medication situation under control.
I hope this helped. Keep us posted.
Gabbycakes