exhausted mom

Thanks, I will check. I've seen their place on Telegraph but theres always wheelchairs outside: so I assumed they were for physical disabilities. As for NAMI, surprisingly they have not had any suggestions for this. I have for years asked at all my groups, I belong to 3 support groups for family members. Asked at the county hospital, asked his methadone clinic, asked his county clinic. No one has had any experience of this except one woman form Sonoma who had a social worker who offered to do it for her daughter. This is such a common problem. If anyone wanted to start a business, this would be a huge need, that just does not seem to be met. My best bet seems to be to get that $750 meds monitor device robot thing that intones "time to take your meds" and shoots out the cup with the meds, if it is not picked up it calls my cellphone to warn me my son has not taken his meds. Of course he could fill it with the other pills I dont want him to take (he is dual diagnosis), or he could pick up the cup and toss it in the garbage!:angryfire Why is there no help for this simple and common need?

They all seem to be only for elder care. I need a visiting nurse for a 20 year old with Bipolar Disorder, to dispense meds. Can anyone recomend any home visiting nurse organisations that can have psych nurse visits to dispense meds? I cant find anything in the yellow pages.

Thank you, and good luck with your son. I agree this is unbelievably hard. I have never faced anything worse in my life. He just won his hearing (= is no longer a danger to self or others, as he was last weekend when 5150'd -CA comitted) and was released from the state hospital, but this time in much better shape for a change. Not only back to his sane self but making plans for dealing with the falls into psychosis. And he ate easily 4 times yesterday. I am also uneasy with Haldol because of the TDs risk. I wish Seroquel came as an implant for 6 months! They prescribed Vistaril, an antihistamine, for his anxiety, apparently they listened to me re his drug seeking, Benzos history because they have seemed to have succeeded in selling him on Vistaril instead: he was touting the benefits of this. Last time he was there he was out as soon as he could fake sane for 10 minutes in front of the judge. This time he actually got some real help in the groups, and medically, and is back on his Seroquel, and now Vistaril. And he plans to rent with another kid he met there who also went off his Seroquel, wound up in there with him. They will hold eachother to staying on their meds. Maybe getting the mommy says aspect out of taking his meds will be helpfull. Cautiously optimistic...

Re "I spoke w the Seroquel rep. and he does not know if they will ever have an inj." Crazy Mama Thanks for asking the rep! If you see them again, please ask them to consider a Seroquel IM! Re "They can do this based on the fact that he is not getting enough nutrition/hydration, due to his parinoid state(if this is the case). " Wow! Well yes he isnt. I should send them a pic of him at his normal weight. They might just have thought he was always that skinny. Thanks Crazy Mama and Nurse Ratchet etc I will see about HHA in CA.

Yes, you are right - he is an addict too. But when he was on Seroquel, for the most part he was able to battle his addictions better. That is a big problem.

Oh my goodness! I only just found out that even you guys in the system can't make them take their meds: But I didn't realize it meant risking your licence and livelihood! At home its the oppsosite. My husband and I risk our jobs when we cant get him on his meds. The chaos that ensues is more risky to us than letting him stay on Benzos/off Seroquel. So I can see that as motivated as I am to get him on an even keel (and Seroquel does it for him!) that in hospital you are actually pushed by this law to do what he wants - which is just supply the Benzos - which actually disinhibit him without the restoring the rationality that Seroquel provides, so they make him dangerous and in need of hospitalisation..... Is this law crazy!!!!!!??????:angryfire What is the point of creating these wonderfull effective antipsychotics and then not utilizing them? The only time my kid has functioned at his pre illness level in the last 9 years was in 2 years of Cedu high schooling at a therapeutic boarding school, Boulder Creek Academy in Idaho. There the nurse just gave the kids their meds every day. Somehow they took them....Maybe because they were minors? It seemed like a miracle at the time....now even more so!

Thankyou, yes I am at wits end. I have spoken to his various psychs, the current one out at the county hospital, he laughed and pointed out that its illegal, that even at the hospital they cant force meds. this is how I know this would be more along the lines of hiring a hitman than a nurse! But I just wonder if there is any way.....any ideas?

I DO know that this is not legal - to force meds on someone.....So possibly what I am looking for is outside the law....something more like a hit man: - A shot man. But here is my question:- How do I go about hiring a psych nurse who will get my Schizophrenic, Bipolar, Borderline 20 yr old son to take his meds? ( 9 years of diagnoses) I can't do it and am spending all my time off work in trying. I am exhausted. It destroys the one relationship he has left, with me, so it is bad for him that I have to be the bad guy. I feel that a non family member would have less baggage, and may be more effective. Don't suggest sneaking it in his food/drink. He s so suspicious of being poisoned everyone has ZERO access to the few morsels he ever eats. Someone who will come by and just give him his 300 mgs Seroquel, no more BS. Is Seroquel injectable or implantable? - I know there are longterm Haldol shots, but he can be fully rational and human on Seroquel and has been on (and off) it since 2000, (and I think Haldol is more leading to TD.) Are any of the other newer antipsychotics like Seroquel injectable or implantable? Geodon, Abilify, Zyprexa? I am in Northern California. I know what the laws are. I really just need any advice that may be a solution to this problem. I really hope someone has some experience or advice that is helpfull in solving this.

We have a 20 year old son who has been REALLY REALLY needing to get back on his meds. Seroquel. We just had the police admit him to the county psych ward in Martinez, CA. You mean they can't make him take his meds either? This is real bad news to me!