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Parkinson’s unresponsive episodes.
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My dad is 86. He has had PD ~10yrs. He has been managed by a terrific movement disorder specialist at a University hospital. I am an PT and dad has maintained a daily walking and exercise program that has helped him maintain his mobility. The past year he has started to decline with more falls, more confusion and hallucinations. He has been on Seroquel for the past 3 months and that has helped manage his hallucinations. Dad has had 2 previous episodes of unresponsiveness in the past 6 weeks that lasted ~1-2 hrs. Today, I could not wake him up in the morning. He was unresponsive for 3 hours. His HR, BP, SaO2, blood sugar and temp were all normal. I called his MD and was told to take him to ER. As soon as I got off the phone with MD, he woke up. He doesn't remember anything. He was totally fine after he woke up. Does anyone have any other updates on why this is happening? Is it a progression of his PD? Could it be seizure activity or related to the seroquel? The doctor has suggested he start Nuplazid and eventually reduce the seroquel from his current dose of 37.5 mg. Nuplazid will take ~3months to start working. Any advice is appreciated.
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My wife is 83 and has had Parkinson's for 14 years. She has had similar "non-responsive" episodes that look to me more like petit mal seizures. At first it was just a simple staring and then sleeping for an hour or 2 with no memory. The last episode she was putting a puzzle together and stopped moving. That lasted a few minutes. However, this time instead of just sleeping afterwards, she went totally unconscious, and would have fallen out of her chair if I had not caught her. She was unconscious for several minutes and woke up asking what she did. That evening, she could not eat her supper. She kept falling asleep. Eventually she went to bed and slept about 14 hours. Her neurologist put her on Kepra and weaned her off of Topamax. She could not tolerate the Kepra and we are now reversing the process to put her back on the Topamax where she was more functional. Originally, she was on the Topamax for Ocular Migraines. A combination of an ocular migraine and a bladder infection put her in the hospital and unresponsive for 3 days. She is showing signs of dementia and has hallucinations but they are not bothersome.
I, too, am open to suggestions and ideas.
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My mom has Parkinson’s as well. She is 83 years old. She just had her third unresponsive episode. She is also out for about an hour where she is totally unresponsive, she then wakes up with no recollection. Her vitals have been normal. She has gone to the hospital and they have not come to a conclusion about what is causing these episodes. Sorry I am not much help at all except for understanding what you go through.