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What Causes Visual Hallucinations While On Treatment For Prostate Cancer?

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Posted on Tue, 5 Jul 2016
Question: 74 year old male. He is seeing things that aren't there. No med changes. Blood pressure does go up sometime in each day. To about 120 over 180. The doctors haven't helped much. He does have prostate cancer which is being treated with some kind of female hormones. He is in his right mind and knows he is seeing these things when it happens.
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Answered by Dr. Dr. P. T. Patil (45 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
The symptoms of your father seem to be due to Anxiety Neurosis.

Detailed Answer:
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Thanks for your query ,based on the facts that you have posted it appears that your 74 years old father who is known to have cancer of the prostate and being treated with hormonal therapy gets episodes of hypertension once in a while .

The varied symptoms and transient fluctuations in his blood pressure that he gets are mostly due to Anxiety Neurosis associated with cancer prostate and age related senile neurosis.

I would suggest to consult qualified Psychiatrist for counselling and treatment .

Hope I have answered your query ,please feel free to ask if you have more questions , I shall be happy to help you .
Thanks and Regards.
Dr.Patil.



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What Causes Visual Hallucinations While On Treatment For Prostate Cancer?

Brief Answer: The symptoms of your father seem to be due to Anxiety Neurosis. Detailed Answer: Hello Thanks for your query ,based on the facts that you have posted it appears that your 74 years old father who is known to have cancer of the prostate and being treated with hormonal therapy gets episodes of hypertension once in a while . The varied symptoms and transient fluctuations in his blood pressure that he gets are mostly due to Anxiety Neurosis associated with cancer prostate and age related senile neurosis. I would suggest to consult qualified Psychiatrist for counselling and treatment . Hope I have answered your query ,please feel free to ask if you have more questions , I shall be happy to help you . Thanks and Regards. Dr.Patil.