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-->Our family doctor, a Family Practice specialist with a large number of patients >with movement disorders, startled me the other day. He stared at my husband who was >writhing in his wheelchair with his left leg waving around up in the air at waist high >level while he was leaning way over to the right in constant motion. He said Neal had >passed Parkinson's and was exibiting symptoms of Huntingtons Disease! >Martha When my husband started exhibiting the dyskinesis that I know as 'Tardive dyskinesis', common to over-medicated psych patients, I became alarmed. Tardive dyskinesis can be permanent (in psyche patients) and I didn't want Jamie going through the rest of his life flaying in the wind. Clearly, the cause was Mirapex - Jamie never exhibited those symptoms until he started the drug. Now we are weaning him slowly (he's down to 1 3/4 mgm/day) but have seen no change in the dyskinesis. We have seen an increase in tremor and dystonia (right large toe), however, and are beginning to question the wisdom of removing him from the Mirapex. It seems we're always choosing one side effect over another in trying to manage his disease - as a consequence we have seen him develop a realm of other neurological symptoms indicative of other diseases. ---- God bless Mary Ann