cannycat

I work in psych and while I have had patients with pseudo(fake) seizures, I have also seen ones with seizures from benzodiazepine (Valium, Xanax and Ativan are all benzo's) withdrawal. Your sister could be having either type of these. The best advice I can give you is that of tough love. It sounds like you're the caretaker in the family so this will be hard but you need to stop running to her side every time she has one of these episodes. Good luck.

i work in an acute care setting and personally i'm not pleased with im geodon. it's not sedating enough with the really psychotic pt's and we just don't use much of it anymore unless the pt. isn't able to be given haldol. our favorite "cocktail" is a mix of haldol 5mg, ativan 2mg and benadryl 25mg either po or im. of course im you have to give 2 injections (haldol and ativan in 1 and benadryl alone). even with the geodon we still give a 2nd injection of either ativan 1 or 2mg for the sedation.