My mother has had AD for about 4 years and has several remedies(Tarentula, and her constitutional Calc Carb). She was worse before,3 years ago with hallucinating and talking to photographs. She doesn't do that any more.(I had tried alumina and plumbum a couple of years ago and they did nothing).

These are her symtoms:

She moves things around from place to place, photographs, playing cards, folded napkins. She will sometimes give a packet of things to one of us, like a gift. Or she will arrange them on a dresser in a straight line. She walks very slowly(blind from Glaucoma in one eye) but she always walked slowly before. She is very careful in walking. If when we take a walk I try to pull her to walk a little faster she always resists with strength.

Sometimes she will sit in a chair, recently with her head kind of slumped over, for a long time, dozing. We don't know if its because she gets up in the middle of the night and wanders around the house or she is taking a rest from her moving things from place to place.

Can't leave toilet paper in the bathroom or she will take it and fold it in little pieces and hide them all over the house. She goes to day care l day a week and she will fold napkins there. Once I bought her l2 rolls of toilet paper and left them in the bathroom. 4 hours later they were all gone.

Her nose is constantly running a clear fluid. She used to blow it all the time(I think she hated using kleenex or toilet paper, like they were much too valuable to use in that way. Seems to run more when she is eating. Once it seemed to just pour out of her.

She ates to take any pills and will resist very well any attempts to get her to take any unless you tell her they are just to be sucked, not swallowed. She is suspicious if you try to get her to take anything or eat anything but will eat well on her own if left alone. If I put anything on her plate, extra food, she will get ticked off.

When I give her chocolate which she could probably eat none stop for hours, she always offers me some.


When her routine is changed she becomes very resistant. I take her out to eat once a week. Once I made dinner for her instead and she wouldn't eat it.

When my son and his wife went away for 5 days and I took care of her she wouldn't brush or teeth or let me give her a bath until the fourth day. Very very strong when she is resisting

She has a bald spot on the top of her head from scratching it so much, about the size of a us silver dollar. My daughter in law doesn't think it is from itching.She thinks she does it all the time and is just fixated on it.

She is always cold and will sometimes walk around the house with her coat on. But if its 90 degrees out she will complain of the heat. She hates having her hair washed. Hates the water coming over her head. Yells out "no, no,no".

Before she got ill she was taking care of a much younger woman who was very ill. This woman complained to my mother for 25 years. My mother always had a sympathetic ear for her but the woman would nag at my mother sometimes and my mother would mutter swear words under her breath, and get red in the face but would never get mad out loud or directly to the woman. She would be out of ear shot when she did it. When my mother was in her hallucinating period, this woman would call her and my mother would say, as if she was without AD, "yes, I know, I know, it will be okay". Even the day this woman died, my mother came out of her AD, and said " I think about you all the time". Sometimes I have thought that the only way my mother could end this relationship which became too much of a strain for her was by getting AD. Of on some level she knew that the woman was going to die soon. When I bring her name up now, she says, "oh, her" , like she was a nuisance.

I know there isn't a lot of hope for people in this condition but maybe some palliation.

I'm willing to try anything. Her own homeopath is getting too old, I think..and lives quite far away.

One more thing, my mother was obsessed with bread all her life, had to have good bread at every meal, french or italian. When I was younger she made my grandmother hide it after dinner and then around 9:00 at night she would beg her mother to give her the bread until she finally in a huff would go and get the bread for her.