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Sandra, I am not qualified to say whether the Mirapex is responsible for your mother's newly emergent problems. I know it must be titrated and only gradually increased, but 0.125 does seem to be a low dose. Hospitalization seems to be very hard on Parkinson patients, and delirium and confusion are common. My unprofessional advice is to get her out of there as soon as possible. Warmest best wishes. Ken On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Sandra Edwards <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > My Mom, 70 years old was diogn. with parkinson about 4 years ago. She has > never taken even a simple tylenol before. She hates the thought of taking > medicine. Finally, on last Friday she gave in and accepted the fact that > life as she has always known, had changed and she needed help. She can no > longer walk, brush her hair, get dressed, or even write her name. I took > her to a Grat doctor who started her on Miropex, .125 3 times a day, and > sent her to her own family doctor for heart & lung check ups as she was > faving shortness of breath. I really think she got overwhelmed and had a > very bad anziety attack, but she wound up in the hospital Friday afternoon. > Today, Sunday, she is totally confused and talking out of her head. The > only meds she is getting is the miropex & ativan for her being so nervious. > Is this normal? Is her body just getting use to the med's and will it get > better? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto: > [log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn