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[quote=Anonymous]The stroke team for my great-aunt highly recommends ensuring that the recovering stroke patient get enough physical/mental activity during the day while noting that the concept of "enough" is highly dependent on the specifics of each patient.  We've also noticed that her two evening medications have been adjusted to ER (extended release) while some of her day meds have been reduced.  We certainly notice if she doesn't get enough PT or OT during the day but the real difference came with the move to some ER meds.

We have a night nurse for her and the night nurse has stressed with all of us how important it is that her evening activities be very structured and routinized, much like her day, until we get her Circadian rhythm back on target.  To that end, we put in black-out shades and a white noise machine but we also got her one of those sun lights to use during the day and try to monitor that she doesn't sleep too much (even though she is supposed to nap because recovering from a stroke is exhausting!).

Have you spoken to her stroke team/doctor about the meds?  [/quote]

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