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> Hi, I signed off a few months ago, and now I'm back. I live in > Philadelphia now, so I can be closer to my parents. My dad has PD, > and he and mom have no car now since dad drove it THROUGH the garage!! > Thank goodness no one was hurt. > > I remember someone talking about hallucinations before; how the person > would see his sons around the house. My dad started seeing me all the > time, then he started seeing strangers outside in the steet. Now it > has gotten much worse - the "people" are in the house and even in the > bed. They frighten him terribly, and seem to be more menacing than > before. He is constantly seeing people now, and I wonder of this is a > new, irreversible phase he's in. He's suffered from some dementia and > general cognitive loss for quite some time, but he's quite "round the > bend" now. > > Is this common? Is there anything to help the constant > hallucinations? > > Monica Burke > [log in to unmask] ABSOLUTELY, Monica! My father went throught the exact same situation and we went through a lot of grief trying to figure out what to do. The worst moments were when he tried to attack my sister with a fork (thinking she was a "ghost") and almost set his house on fire! He's now on a drug called Risperdal (sp?) 2x day and the hallucinations have completely disappeared! There are some side effects, of course (my dad seems to drool a couple time a day_ and he thinks it may be constipating as well but the drug has saved us from putting him in a mental institution (which we had to do for a week) permanently. Spiro Bolos