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hi all At 20:11 1999/06/25 -0400, teresa wrote: >Can anyone help answer this man's questions? > >Teresa, Daughter of Mama (57/43/38) > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bandekar, Raj (PA62) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 12:10 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Parkinson Info. > > >Teresa, > >Here I am again trying to get some information on Parkinson Disease. >Thanks for all the help that you extended earlier. Could you please post >these questions/scenarios on my behalf to the "large email group" that >you belong to. > >My father age 77, is suffering from Parkinsons disease for last 9 years. >He has been on Syndopa (a.k.a levadopa), eldepryl and pacetone drugs. >His Parkinsons was under control till about past 6 months. It has been >very severe for the past month. In fact he is in the hospital currently. >It all started when he got flu 2 months back and then developed lung >infection into pnuemonia. The pnuemonia is under control but his >Parkinson has increased severely. Also recently in the past month or so >the doctors had introduced Bromocryptine which is an agonist. I >understand it is not the latest and there are other drugs such as >ropinerole or pramipexole or Mirapex. Could some body answer the >following questions? > >1) At this stage of Parkinson his body has become very rigid. He cannot >walk out of bed. Also he is unable to intake food naturally due to >rigidity of muscles in the throat. He has to be fed via nasal path. We >think that due to pnuemonia Parkinson might have been aggravated. Could >Parkinson affect throat muscles? His doctor assures us that he has hopes >to improvise the situation so that he may be able to take food normally >and walk again. >2) Are these new drugs better (ropinerole or pramipexole or Mirapex). If >so where can I find information about these. I am looking for specific >infomation about therapy, dosage, checmical constituents etc. on these >drugs. > >I would really appreciate any help. > >Thanks a lot. > >Raj Bandekar. > hi raj the key words in your message, for me, are: >His Parkinsons was under control till about past 6 months. It has been >very severe for the past month. In fact he is in the hospital currently. >It all started when he got flu 2 months back and then developed lung >infection into pnuemonia. The pnuemonia is under control but his >Parkinson has increased severely. Also recently in the past month or so >the doctors had introduced Bromocryptine which is an agonist. ... is he taking the same amount of levodopa now as he was 6 months ago? are the doctors who introduced bromocryptine the same doctors who prescribed your fathers' medications six months ago? i advocate getting him back to his med routine when the pd was most under control to see how he responds to that routine now 'playing around' with new meds, trying this and trying that is a recipe for tragedy do not allow it your father's pd was under control and then he became seriously ill and was hospitalized even if his illness is cured he still needs to recover from the stresses involved the pd may slow that recovery but brain chemistry is not something to be rushed please read 'joe's story' in the PIEnet section of my website [url below] janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada a new voice http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ [log in to unmask]