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Originally Posted by ashleyk
My father who had PD for 16 years and died at 88 was taken to the hospital after he fell and couldn't get up, no broken bones. After 5 days in the NWH hospital, he was beginning to walk whereupon he came down with aspiration pneumonia with a fever. They could not bring the fever down after another 5 days. The idiot Infectious Control doctor decided that my father had "drug fever" and stopped all Sinemet. After another 4 days my father was totally stiff and died of a pulmonary embolism. I found out from his nurse the day before my father died that the Sinemet was dc'd. I called dad's neuro and told him what I just heard. The next morning. they had given dad a sinemet shot and he perked right up. That afternoon, he died of a blood clot to the lung.
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I am so sorry for your loss, and for the (non)care your father received. Thank you for sharing what must be a difficult story to relate, so that the rest of us know what can happen unless you are very proactive about the meds with hospital staff.
Also, I have always read how dangerous (and potentially fatal) it is to suddenly stop sinemet. I'm shocked a doctor would order that without doing the most basic of checks and/or communicating with your father's doctor.