My Mum is seeing things and hearing voices!

Glad your mum's been correctly diagnosed now Marydoll. Doctors don't always get it right, they're only human and it's always worth getting another opinion if you have doubts. My father's doctor called me a silly daughter and dismissed my insistence that he had further tests, which proved to be advanced lung cancer. The GP had diagnosed asthma.

My GP dismissed my worries about my mother having a UTI. He had been to see my mother earlier and prescribed nothing. I got a call at school from her carers saying they were very worried about her. I phoned her GP again and he said as it was teatime, the hospital wouldn't admit her until morning as she was a geriatric case, I had to wait until morning!
I phoned an ambulance and she was admitted. She did indeed have a serious UTI and was also diagnosed with Alzheimers while still in hospital. The same GP had dismissed my fears of that also, as my mother presented as very lucid when she saw him.
On a lighter note, I kept reporting incidents to the nursing staff about the hallucinations she was having.
One evening my mother told us that a helicopter with flashing lights was hovering outside her window and that there was a lot of noise and people rushing about. When we told the nurses they started laughing. It was not a hallucination, the helicopter bringing a sick patient from the Islands had landed outside her window.

The consensus however is that regardless of your doctor’s apparently relaxed (?) attitude, this needs to be checked out ASAP.
Good luck!

My first thought was that your mum might have a UTI, so in agreement with the other posters. However, I wouldn’t rule out a TIA. Do you know what caused your Mum to fall? Hope you’re able to get this sorted soon, glass.

Sad as it is, some of these hallucinations have made me smile. Hope your mother soon returns to normal!

Another one saying UTI - my dear old mum experienced children in her bedroom and loud music all day and night.
All very distressing for you and your mum, practise nurse should be able to carry out a test

UTIs often won't cause a temperature and other infections can cause hallucinations. Might be worth getting her eyes checked.

Sometimes the first sign that my MIL has an infection is hallucinations. I agree with others that it would be best to get her to the gp. Hope she recovers quickly.

After an incident when her steroid dose was upped my mum had people cycling through her flat! When I told the dr he casually said it can happen and lowered the dose

Absolutely agree withga (a temperature is not an infallible guide, Paw is just finished a/b’s for an UTI which was diagnosed nearly 2 weeks ago, he had no temperature -to speak of)

You could take her temperature and if its raised, she may have an infection. A urine infection is most likely to cause hallucinations, but any kind can cause them.

Honestly glass - please don't wait until next Thursday; if at all possible get your mum to A&E. My husband's gran used to get UTI's that would cause her to hallucinate and in the local care homes if the residents show signs of confusion, delirium or hallucinations the very first thing they do is a test for UTI's.
www.agingcare.com/articles/urinary-tract-infections-elderly-146026.htm

My mother enjoyed watching a string quartet in her ward in hospital, as a result of medication. Unfortunately when she reported an intruder in the middle of the night hospital security had to be called and chaos ensued. The problem was that she appeared to be calm and lucid and gave lots of plausible details.

I hope that the situation with your mother resolves and a simple explanation is found.

On medication my mother saw rabbits running along the curtain rails. There were folk who kept taking her to parties in the middle of the night,, making her climb out of the window (4th floor).

Yes my first thought was something like a UTI . Particularly with older people.

I also thought of a UTI. My 82 year mother told my husband she was pregnant, with smirk on her face. She was usually such a prude.

My Sisters day to take her shopping and when she arrived 1st thing this morning, Mum was sat in her coat and asked where my Sister had been as she had been sat here for an age, said she had been up and ready since 2,30am

I asked the question re medication Dr said the only addition was for blood thinning and he wouldnt expect it to cause any problems with her regular medication.

PS A paramedic will carry the necessary “kit”on him to dip a urine specimen quicker than waiting for a doctor and a result 3 days later.

X posts with ga

Crossed posts but it seems great minds think alike!

Grannya When we saw the Dr last week he asked for her to make an appointment with the nurse for urine and blood tests, but he didnt think that it would show anything, first appt we could get was Thursday this week.

Yes medication can cause hallucinations. Is your mother on a lot of tablets? They can react with each other as well.

Sounds very like a UTI -very common in older people and can cause hallucinations. Call a doctor/ambulance if necessary.
Of course it could be vascular dementia or a TIA but either way a simple urine test will rule out the least serious (in that it is treatable)

Did the doctor not check for a UTI? My mother used to suffer from them frequently and it soon became quite easy to recognise the signs......Confusion, talking nonsense, imagining things etc., etc.

A urine test followed by a course of ABs sorted things out.

I hope you soon find a solution to her problems. It's not nice feeling so helpless.