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Dear Fred. I am very sympathetic to your medication problem with your Mom. I had the same problem, my mother was taking things/not taking things which I was afraid was making her symptoms worse. The dilemma was...are her current symptoms from the Parkinsons or from the meds! I tried charts for her to check off (I couldn't be there each dosage time) but she forgot whether she took them or not. Then, I tried the little week-long pill compartmentized pack. The little plastic cases have daily snap-out cases with four compartments to take along with you. I still had problems with that, because she tends to go in and "reorganize" things, and gets confused when she does this. Now, my step-father or the visiting nurse checks her pill boxes for proper dosages. We had quite a difficult time at one point when she dumped out all her white pills, mixing them together. I then had to sort and recontainerize them for her. She hasn't done that lately, so things are somewhat better. I feel that the medication issue is a complex and recurring problem with PD. Regards, Lynn Lowe [log in to unmask]