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In a message dated 23/06/2007 07:04:34 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: My name is Elaine Wirth. My husband has PD with frontal lobe dementia. He went to Utah and rode in the jeep boulder hopping with my son at the end of April. He was coherent and his usual passive self. In May, he began losing his balance and falling. Toward the end of the month, he began having visual illusions and became paranoid with hallucinations. He also became agitated and combative. He was low on oxygen and his mind left him for most of the day. After a fight with the hospital, they admitted him from the emergency room to the hospital. The insurance company has been trying to get him entered into a custoidial care facility. I have read that this kind of problem can often be fixed, but is tricky to adjust meds to put his acetycoline and dopamine levels in balance. I do not want my husband to be thrown away just because he is seventy and causing the insurance company some money. There are few neurologists in NM and the two that work for the HMO will not visit patients in the hospital. Now a geriatric psychiatrist is managing my husband's case, but as far as I know, he has not consulted any neurologist. If any of you know any ways to require them to provide a competent PD neurologist who might be able to put these chemicals back in balance, or at least give him the 6 to l2 weeks trials necessary, please let me know. I am frantic. Elaine Wirth --------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! Could there be sone kind of brain damage from friction ? That boulder hopping sounds as if it could shake a body up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn