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--- Cynthia White <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dad takes 1 carbidopa 10/levodopa 100 mg tablets 3 > times a day. The bottle says to take 2 pills 3 > times > a day but he can't tolerate taking that many pills. > He also takes 1 100mg amantadine tablet 3 times a > day. > He also takes seroquel. The neuro cut out his > selegine because we thought that might be causing > his > hallucinations. At first I did not notice any > change > but now I think he is starting to freeze. My > college > friend is the chief neuro at one of the NY VA > hospitals. She suggested a drug called comtan to > help > dad. I have a call into his neuro. > > Dad also has PTSD going back to WW2 when he was a > young soldier on Owkinowa. I now think his > hallucinations are not that bad. I can deal with > him > calling me Amy, my dead mother's name. I say it's > OK > I'm your daughter I look like her. The hardest > thing > to deal with is his waking up and thinking he's > driving a car and he's going to crash. Sometimes we > wants me to call the police and report something > only > he can see. I ask him to calm down, give him a > tranquilizer and everything seems to be OK. > > Has anyone had simlar experiences? > > Cindy caregiver to 80 year old dad diagnosed in 1991 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn