Dear friends-- having taken upo your time and profited from your responses
before about Peter's early morning pains,etc, I feel I shopuld fill you in
again--thigs are looking up!
I thought all along that the core problem might be the rigidity of PD after
a night in basically one position. This was reinforced by the fact that
once he could get up, the severe abdominal pains vanished.
Having had 3 ER trip[s and an overnight in hospital to correct a blockage,
we decided to try a new approach, and his internist OKed a small dose (1 or
2 tablets) of Ibuprofen. I am aware that he should not take a lot of this,
and that he should take it with a full glass of water--hard to do when he's
1/2 awake!
I divided his big batch of meds (SInemet regular and CR + Requip and
Prozac) usually taken at 5:30AM, and have been giving him the regular
Sinemet,with Ibrprofen at that time, to get the day started. He then sleeps
till 7 or 7:30, gets up WITHOUT HELP or PAIN and takes the rest of the
meds. This has worked for a week now, sand I'm hoping it will continue to
do so at least for a while.
Our thanks, again, to the many liustmembers on PIE and CARE who offered
helpful ideas to check out, and supported us while we lived through
this---fingers crossed--we're OK for now!
Camilla Flintermann, <[log in to unmask]>
CG for Peter, 81/70/55 co-owner, CARE list
http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm
"If the only tool you have is a hammer,
everything looks like a nail. "
----Abraham Maslow
