Re: Hallucinations and Personality Changes

[Scott Burnett <sburnett001@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was reading the information insert on Requip and it said that one of
the side effects was hallucinations in a goodly percentage of the
group.  Is your mom taking requip?

Scott

On Sunday, June 2, 2002, at 07:36 PM, Jim and Linda wrote:

> I'm brand new to this list.  My mother has had parkinson's for ten
> years.  About six months ago she started to have benign
> hallucinations - she saw people in the room with her.  She did not
> interact with the people in her hallucinations, but she was upset about
> the lack of "privacy."  The hallucinations became so frequent that the
> doctor prescribed Seroquel for her.  Immediately, she underwent a
> personality change.  She became combative and paranoid and the
> hallucinations became more severe.  The doctor did reduce her Sinemet
> CR to 25 mg 3 times a day from 50 mg 3 times a day.  She has been this
> way for 5 weeks and the doctor is saying that this is just the next
> stage in parkinsons.  Some days she is wonderful, calm, clear,
> interactive and walks great.  The next day she can hardly walk and is
> so difficult to handle.
>
> Does anyone have any feedback or experiences like this?
>
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