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Does Dementia Medicines And Mood Stabilizers Put A Person Into Deep Sleep?
my mother has dementia and has been lately tappered of her mood stabilizers. but i have noticed that when she sleeps -she falls into a deep coma like sleep. for me this is scarey and its hard to wake her up because she is so out of it. need you help...this is scarey.
Tue, 15 Apr 2014
yes...most f the drugs acting on the central nervous systm has sedation as their side effect...to give an exact information,you should give me the details of the drugs,including dosage...if it causes very deep sedation,dose need to be titrated.
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