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What Causes Hallucinations After Treatment Of An Ear Infection?
my wife had an ear infection 5 months ago and was given antibiotic drops for ears-3 different times because she said fungus wouldn t go away. two weeks ago she kinda started hallucinating to the point now that she cant be left alone. she is 59 takes ambien Prozac humira methotrexate and one dr took her off Prozac and prescribed Zoloft. she got bad off on it so she changed back. she thinks she has worms/fungus in ears and pulled lots of hair out. all drs said she had swimmers ear or fungus. she is going crazy, obsessed with ears. I need help very bad any kind of answer will be greatly appreciated sorry to bother you but I don t have any financial devastated after this ordeal. thank you
Fri, 2 Jun 2017
hello there, I can understand you are very much worried for your wife.
After reading your theory, I may say that it is very unlikely to develop hallucinations after ear infection. At present, your wife is going through phase of psychotic episode. She required thorough psychiatric evaluation for the confirmation of the diagnosis. She requires adequate dose of anti psychotics with some sedative medicines for sleep. Moreover if its a plain psychotic episode then medicines like prozac and zoloft will not work and they can worsen her psychosis. So better take a second opinion on this from a psychiatrist. All the best.
After reading your theory, I may say that it is very unlikely to develop hallucinations after ear infection. At present, your wife is going through phase of psychotic episode. She required thorough psychiatric evaluation for the confirmation of the diagnosis. She requires adequate dose of anti psychotics with some sedative medicines for sleep. Moreover if its a plain psychotic episode then medicines like prozac and zoloft will not work and they can worsen her psychosis. So better take a second opinion on this from a psychiatrist. All the best.
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