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Kathy Greene wrote: > I know this may sound weird, but as I read the posts on difficulty getting > pwp to take medicine I thought of my last classroom. My students were > fairly severely autistic. Often when I made a direct request or gave > instructions the very first response was NO. If I pushed the issue we would > really get into a power struggle, and power struggles always escalated until > they won. So I removed myself from the battle and found ways to keep them > on track without the 'demand' coming from me. > Perhaps if the pills were left next to a really annoying timer that had to > be turned off the pwp would take them. They may feel more in control of > things, or at least not like they are being "pushed" around. > Just a though, thank goodness I don't have to deal with this with mom yet, > but the 'control issue' rang a bell with me and put me back in the classroom > with my students.Kathy I looked at the subject scanned the message and found no reference to Requip. What a gyp! I am interested in Requip as a possible replacement for Permax for Barbara and I got over 900 hits from the archives. I was wondering how many of those hits are misleading like this one. Now I'll have to re-assess my choices in evaluating the merits of such a switch. Are these references rated in any way? Is there a summary in these references, experiences with the drug in question? I can easily find out the chemical and physical properties of ropinirole, but not much more. Well..., back to the library, internet, etc. Michel Margosis