The doctor at the facility is who you should be speaking with. You shouldn't have to cross your fingers in hopes they do what you suggest. If you have power of attorney they need to listen to you or you can call in the counsel on aging in your state and they will send in an ombudsman who has the authority to review his records and create change.

Greg takes escitalopram, too. So do I. 😊 you might want to give a try yourself. It helps caregivers, too.

He also takes memantine. But he didn’t do well on quietapine. Never tried galanapine though.

He’s not quite into depends full time yet but wears them occasionally, when he’s got diarrhea.

Take care, Bernie. You’ve got a tough job, for sure.

Muggsy, thanks for your input. I totally agree. Haldol is such a very old drug, with so many down sides. And I haven’t heard from anyone on this website, who’s loved one is on it regularly.

Greg’s memory care residence’s mobile LPN is only 40 years old. You’d think he’d be more open to later generation antipsychotics. He really likes prescribing haldol and at high doses. I did get him to, though reluctantly, take Greg’s Haldol dose down from 5mg 2x daily to 2.5mg 2x daily. So that’s a step in the right direction.

I mean, it was crazy. Greg went from not taking haldol at all, to immediately being on 10mg a day, every day. Granted, his aggressiveness needed to be stopped quickly but, still, that much haldol seems like over kill.

am planning to take Greg to his behavioral psychiatrist a week from now and let him write down some further adjustments, like maybe substituting Ativan for the haldol, while keeping him on Rexulti, and having haldol be as needed, rather than daily.

Trying to keep the mobile doc in the lead, since he’s the first line of duty. Trying not to usurp him. Need him, too. He comes to the facility every week. So very available.

Nettie, you’re comment is helpful because Ativan is exactly what Greg’s behavioral psychiatrist has advised the facility’s LP substitute and back down the haldol, using it as needed, just as cer did for her husband.

My husband does good on sertraline