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Hello Jeannette, I don't know if you saw my message not too many days ago about my Dad having a severe pain in the chest area. He said it was in his lung. He went to the emergency room and was admitted to the hospital. I believe he was on morphine for a short period and as far as I know did not have any bad side effects such as you describe. He was diagnosed about 1 1/2 yr ago. His symptoms have not progressed dramatically. You did not mention what your father-in-law's medication is. Maybe the interaction is what causes the problem. My question to you is how long has he had this chest pains and have they ever associated them with PD. Recently alot of people have discussed pain in different areas but you have been the first one to mention a chest pain. Welcome to this PD list. It is a wonderful group who are very supportive of each other. Nancy Walker At 07:22 PM 3/18/96 PST, you wrote: >HELLO! I am a new subscriber. My name is Jeannette Toews and my >father-in-law has been a Parkinson patient now for going on 10+ years. We >are finding things very difficult these days. It seems he has been >suffering from chest and abdomen pain this last year. The chest pain is >particularly worrisome. When he has a major attack the hospital of course >admits him and that is where it seems the trouble starts. To aleviate the >chest pain he is usually prescribed morphine. During his stay at the >hospital and for at least 2 to 3 weeks afterwards he becomes very paranoid >and he time he has an episode he never fully is the same. The question we >have is this a common reaction that Parkinson patients have to the drug and >is there an other drug that can be prescribed to ease the pain that does not >have this side effect. > >We have read the material on email from the last 2 days and find that it is >very enlightening and have had many questions answered. > >thanks >Jeannette Toews ([log in to unmask]) >Nanaimo BC > >