Parkinson's Disease-bad reactions to Rytary & Dopamine agonists
 

My husband has had Parkinson's Disease for over 10 years. :mad: He has had problems with Dopamine agonists and most recently Rytary. These medications make him worse causing him to freeze up, sweat excessively, hallucinate at times and fall down. Why is this? What can we do? Thank you.:confused:

Hi momandwife2

Welcome to NeuroTalk :).

I am sorry to read about what your husband has experienced with Rytary.

You and he could find this (fairly technical) information about it useful; http://www.drugs.com/pro/rytary.html.

It might help you both when talking things through with his care team.

All the best.

momandwife2,

As the disease progresses, it becomes harder to medicate correctly. As a first step I think you ought to check that his prescriptions are reasonable. For instance, when your husband moved to Rytary was he put on the correct dose?

It would be useful if you listed all the drugs (doses and times) that he was on before and after he got worse. And let us know some more about his state of health, for instance, how far does he walk each day?

John

My dad is only taking carb/lev now for his PD, we had to completely stop pramipexole (Mirapex®, Mirapexin®) due to hallucinations/delusions and other side effects.

Is he on any other meds?
We had to stop Flomax and Vesicare due to side effects also. plus they weren’t really working anyway..