my father is in hospice diagnosis lung cancer with mets to right hip, liver and lymph nodes. he was sleeping 20 hours per day at the beginning of the week and now is up all night very restless has fallen twice since going to inpatient hospice and receiving morphine, Haldol, Ativan and valium. The restlessness started wed any suggestions?
Hi, The diagnosis given by you above suggest advanced disease and most probably beyond cure. He must also be heading towards multi organ dysfunction. This results in various metabolic rearrangements which in turn may result in such altered behavior. The Chat Doctor. His treatment at present is aimed more at making more comfortable and giving him pain relief as long as he is alive. A thorough investigation for the reversible causes needs to be made including saturation levels, sugars renal parameters’S. Electrolytes, Renal and liver tests. If a correctable cause can be found the may find improvement from its correction. If everything comes out normal, then the dose of the above