Is There An Aber Who Can Converse About The Charles Bonnet Syndrome. ?

[HansUrbancka]

The reason I am asking is because in my wife has a very good friend of 50yrs whom I am thinking is now suffering from the unpleasantries of the condition......The person concerned is in her early eighties and living alone in an isolated country cottage; where she was born and has always held a wish to have her funeral from her lifetime home.

It is the case that the lady now has somewhat poor eyesight and is getting hallucinations of seeing people in her delightful garden and even within her cottage.

Next Monday, my wife's friend has an appointment to see her Doctor at 4.30pm, but is unlikely to mention her mental aberrations. Consequently, I am wondering if it would be frowned upon if my wife endeavoured to contact the Doctor and 'put him in the picture'. Would any attention be paid to such an approach to a G P.?

Hans.

[HansUrbancka]

@ladyalex....My wife is intending to go along with your advice.....// I would suggest that your wife telephones the GP or even just leaves a message with the receptionist saying that her friend is being troubled by hallucinations.
The GP cannot discuss the friend's problems with your wife, but they can take notice of information given to them.//

Hans.

[HansUrbancka]

My wife has just come off the telephone having spoken to her friend's GP.

The Doctor was appreciative of the information that was given to him and indicated that it could assist discussion with 'the patient' at this afternoon's appointment.

Hans.

[Sqad]

Good news and expected result Hans.
Thanks for the feedback.

[Peter Pedant]

I am awaiting an operation date for pleomorphic adenoma ( tear gland )
and have some sight loss in that eye

I thought it was common place that in failing sight the brain made up the most likely image to 'fill in' blank spaces which = hallucination

anyway I am getting it a lot which is bothersome but havent thought it was worth treating - anyway what do you treat it with ?


when I had a mad neighbour - I mean really mad - the GP was resistant to going out and treating her unbidden even tho I tried 'look it is either you or the law courts for a harassment order'

In the end we persuaded her to go to her GP and it was obvious to him when she walked in the room etc....

[Peter Pedant]

Good well done Hans....

[Ric.ror]

Yes well done to both you and your wife
I only wish I had such caring friends

[murraymints]

nice one Hans xx

[RATTER15]

I would guess that the hallucinations are more likely to be dementia or medication related.

[ladyalex]

I am glad you found my advice useful Hans and hope your wife's friend has a productive appointment with her GP.

For what it is worth, I agree with Ratter that these hallucinations are more likely to be dementia or medication related.....both of which possibilities will doubtless be addressed by her doctor.

[HansUrbancka]

I somehow don't feel that it is a case of Dementia because her 'argumentative skills' are still first class. It is my opinion that, because of a lack of enthusiasm to prepare food, she is under nourished and is also somewhat dehydrated; coupled to an eyesight problem. A recent eye examination revealed that the muscles of her eyes have collapsed so much so that Not only does she have Double Vision it can sometimes be triple or even quadruple.

Anyway, it will be interesting to hear from her when she returns from the appointment with her GP at 4.30 this afternoon. I shall of course post further on this matter.

Hans.

[HansUrbancka]

There have been some interesting developments.

My wife's friend visited her GP, yesterday, and he prescribed Periciazine tablets to calm her down and has made a further appointment to see her on Wednesday of next week. The lady is now accepting that she is seeing illusions and feels she is able to cope with them in the knowledge that they are not real. I think this is because the Doctor has given her an assurance on the matter.

Most interesting is that the Doctor, personally, telephoned her this morning and, guess what, he told her that he had identified her condition as being...Charles Bonnet Syndrome, Hence the reason for the GP wishing to discuss matters further with her, in his Surgery next week.

Hans.

[tonyav]

Very good ( if you see what I mean ) Hans, it is a step forward that she now accepts that these illusions are just that.
Sounds like her GP has been doing a bit of homework on CBS.