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Peggy wrote: > > My initial question for this group is about antidepressants and drug > interactions. Since surgery Mom has been experiencing high levels of > anxiety/agitation that increase noticeably in the late afternoon and into > evening. Welcome to CARE, Peggy. I hope that you will find this list helpful. Your mother may be experiencing 'Sun-downing,' a phenomena that occurs in the elderly and neurologically impaired folks toward the end of the day. Her neurologist should be able to prescribe an anti-anxiety med for her. Please go the PIEN Web site and pull up the list of drugs that are incompatible with PD. Give the list to the facility that is housing your mom to make sure that none of those drugs are prescribed for her. I am an RN whose husband has had PD for 25 years. I carry that list with me in the event that we need to show it to one of his physicians. I have learned not to assume that physicians know about the contraindicated meds. Recently I took care of a very agitated PD patient who was in need of medication. His psychiatrist was about to order Haldol when I intervened (Haldol is one of the drugs that is very detrimental - as is Reglan). I was shocked to learn that, even though he knew that Haldol adversely affected PD, he was going to order it anyway. I got him to order a more benign medication instead. We must be ever vigilant. --------- God bless Mary Ann (CG Jamie 65/25 with PD) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn