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At 21:36 2002/06/02 -0500, Jim and Linda wrote: >I'm brand new to this list. My mother has had parkinson's for ten = >years. About six months ago she started to have benign hallucinations - = >she saw people in the room with her. She did not interact with the = >people in her hallucinations, but she was upset about the lack of = >"privacy." The hallucinations became so frequent that the doctor = >prescribed Seroquel for her. Immediately, she underwent a personality = >change. She became combative and paranoid and the hallucinations became = >more severe. The doctor did reduce her Sinemet CR to 25 mg 3 times a = >day from 50 mg 3 times a day. She has been this way for 5 weeks and the = >doctor is saying that this is just the next stage in parkinsons. Some = >days she is wonderful, calm, clear, interactive and walks great. The = >next day she can hardly walk and is so difficult to handle. =20 > >Does anyone have any feedback or experiences like this? =20 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > has she seen her neurologist lately? she is likely reacting to the seroquel. check it out at pubmed. have you joined the caregivers list? janet janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit primarily perky, parky pd: 55/41/37 cd: 55/44/43 tel: 613 256 8340 email: [log in to unmask] smail: 375 Country Street, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, K0A 1A0 a new voice website: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn