Strange Neurological Symptoms

My father, who's in his late 80's has been experiencing strange neurological symptoms. It has been going on for the last several months since last December 2012. He has been to several alternative MD's who refuse to do anything about it, other than to comment that it's just "normal" aging. Yes several ALTERNATIVE MD's and DO said this! The symptoms he has been having are: excessive sleeping - sleeping constantly, and he falls asleep very easily, even while talking to him; hallucinations and vivid dreaming - he will act out his dreams through actual movements as well as talking - he will see things that are not there (people, animals, etc) - when he finally wakes up from these, he remembers them very well and didn't realize he was acting out in reality; delusions - he will mistaken common objects for other objects (a pile of books for a bed; shoelaces breaking and shredding; cups, mugs, bowls merging into two, or seeing more than one utensil while eating when there is only one), he will also think there are two of me, the other person he sees he claims is also me, but much older; slurred speech - he will talk with a slow, low pitched voice and often trips over his words.

Now he has been hospitalized several times since these symptoms began. He has had diagnoses ranging from pneumonia (with no clinical proof that an infection exists like elevated white blood cells or fever), rhabdomyolysis of unknown cause, "uncontrolled" hypothyroidism, even though he was on 65 mg of NatureThroid/Armour, in which the hospital doctor refused to increase his dose of the dessicated thyroid medicine, but instead put him on Synthroid.

Now, currently he is in the hospital again. This time the diagnosis is "depression." This doctor wants to put him on antidepressants. He was examined with the mini mental status exams and similar tests TWICE, and each time the clinicians found no evidence of Alzheimer's or dementia, but they can't tell me exactly what is going on, other than most recently as a diagnosis of depression. He is able to answer all the questions and recall specific facts and words that he is asked to remember for the tests, so they say he does not fall into the dementia category or delirium. His current alternative doctor, is very slow to do anything at all, and only if I prod him constantly. I finally got him to do a provoked heavy metal urine test a few days ago. He is set to be discharged again, and I feel he cannot function at home in this condition, yet they cannot keep him any longer because he is stable health wise.

I feel it necessary to take him to the hospital when I see he is almost comatose and unresponsive. In this state, he is unable to feed himself because the food turns into a delusion and gets in his way, or when he dresses himself the same thing happens.

He eats an organic diet (except when he is in the hospital) and I use a lot of coconut oil on everything. He doesn't eat junk. Doesn't smoke or drink alcohol. Though many years ago he did drink alcohol moderately and ate out at restaurants almost daily at times. He is not on any other meds other than the Synthroid 100 mcg.

I refuse to give up and put him in a nursing home when there is something going on that needs to be addressed. I know this can be dealt with - I just don't know how. I am fresh out of new alternative MD's (or ND's for that matter) and hospitals to take him to in the area without driving hundreds of miles away. I am in eastern Pennsylvania. To me his condition feels too complex to try and go this alone, but like I said I have no more holistic practioners for him to go to and the money is all gone from paying said practioners their "consultation fees" and for failed IV treatments (hydrogen peroxide) that one of them started but then stopped too soon because he said he felt it wasn't going to work and that I should just put my father in a nursing home (again an alternative MD said that). Anymore I feel just as disgusted with the alternative MD's as I do with the conventional ones. Tweet