There are medication for heart irregularities, they could help your mother a lot. Ask your doctor, since I am not one. If you write me off line I will tell you more about them -names only. Nita Andres E. W. Richards wrote: > My father (Innsbruck) is having a LOT of trouble with his drugs and > ANXIETY. Any advice? His intake of Sinemet is very low but still, if I > try to increase it, there is trouble. It is deeply depressing to see > the lack of care at hospitals and from home health agencies and doctors. > It begins to look like a sort of population control. The general > opinion is that my father should just be sent to a nursing home. > Certainly he will be restrained and ignored. YEt, here at home he > partakes as he can, listening to things he used to enjoy and trying to > hold on to a semblance of dignity and humanity. > > My mother, who was his cg just had a mini stroke from atrial > fibrillation and we are sure it is stressed based. I saw it happening > but she would accept no help. Even now she is fighting for freedom to > drive and go on with life as if everything were all right. > > If he could just lose the anxiety and keep sleeping farely well...... > > Suggestions? Comments? > > JH for Innsbruck