LoveMyBoy
Member
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2014
- Messages
- 11
- Reason
- CALS
- Diagnosis
- 06/2011
- Country
- AUS
- State
- ACT
- City
- Canberra
Hi,
This is my first post - have been lurking for some time reading all the great advice. Thank you all for holding this party and allowing others of us to join.
My husband's ALS is fairly well progressed - he started with left arm weakness and slurred speech, and at this point has lost the use of left arm and left leg with right leg and arm following fast, all hoist transfers, gets most of his food and all medicine through a PEG, all drinks thickened etc.
He is currently in a hospice for a short stay to allow me some respite and to get his pain under control, but while there has had a few attacks of hiccups which have lasted for a day or more each time. The only solution they have found are increasingly strong sedatives, which of course make him very drowsy - i presume they work by relaxing the diaghragm muscles involved in hiccuping or something like that.
Has anyone else's PAL had issues with hiccups like this and did anything else help?
Thanks,
Deb
This is my first post - have been lurking for some time reading all the great advice. Thank you all for holding this party and allowing others of us to join.
My husband's ALS is fairly well progressed - he started with left arm weakness and slurred speech, and at this point has lost the use of left arm and left leg with right leg and arm following fast, all hoist transfers, gets most of his food and all medicine through a PEG, all drinks thickened etc.
He is currently in a hospice for a short stay to allow me some respite and to get his pain under control, but while there has had a few attacks of hiccups which have lasted for a day or more each time. The only solution they have found are increasingly strong sedatives, which of course make him very drowsy - i presume they work by relaxing the diaghragm muscles involved in hiccuping or something like that.
Has anyone else's PAL had issues with hiccups like this and did anything else help?
Thanks,
Deb