Good morning,
I am hoping someone might be able to help me. My mom has parkinson's and has been on mirapex for over 5 years. She has had tremendous weight gain, hallucinations (kittens, angels) and some symptoms I now think have not been the parkinson's progression but the mirapex. (low blood pressure, vision issues and kidney issues) She also has had the hypersexualization issues and pelvic pain which took her to the ER about 2 weeks ago. Long story as short as I can make it, they told her to stop the mirapex over seven days but she stopped it after two and things got downright ugly very quickly. She is hallucinating and delusional almost all the time and is screaming and throwing things at my Dad. I am 10 hours away and am heading up there this week and hope to bring her back with me. I have been trying to get her to get off the mirapex for a while but my mom is stubborn and a nurse of old school--MD's can walk on water and have her best interest at heart. I am also a nurse, husband an MD and he has little good to say about his profession most days. Anyway, she's not sleeping either so they gave her some more drugs for that which really aren't working either. She is agitated or depressed when she's not almost psychotic. I am wondering if there's anything I can do to hasten the drug moving out of her system? Some natural kidney support. I actually have an infrared sauna at my house and would love her to come and do some of that and eat well but they get to make their own decisions. Anyway, wondering if anyone has any experience with this and how I might proceed. I have to say, in warning, my mom is one of the sweetest people in the world and I can't tell you how much devastation this drug has wrought and I fear for what she might not recover at this point. Thanks so much, Laurie Demitry