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Hi Lin,

I have noticed that when my father has a UTI and even while he is

being treated with an antibiotic, his " LBD " symptoms are

exaggerated, including tiredness,seizures, blood pressure

fluctuation, etc. I even think that something about the antibiotics

cause side effects that makes him seem worse. Hopefully once the

treatment is completed and the UTI and antibiotics are out of her

system you will notice an improvement. Hang in there.

I don't know if you have had a chance to read the publication that

posted to the files section called " Mind, Mood and Memory "

but it might be enlightening. I was surprised that many of

the " symptoms " that I had always attributed to dementia were

actually more " Parkinsonian " . I never really thought my dad showed

much Parkinsons...now I am going to do a little more reading. I

also thought it was interesting that the tiredness was part of the

cognitive confusion. I am going to reread that article, as I

scanned it quickly before. If you have a chance to read it, I found

as much insightful info in the chapters leading up to the LBD

chapter. (I was going to skip them as they dealt more with

Parkinsons) It's all related.

Anyway, your post about the mood swings made me think this may be of

interest to you.

Daughter of Bill, 91

> >

> > Hello, everyone. I have been away from the group for most of the

> last several weeks, but all of you have been in my thoughts and

> prayers. Can you please help me with an issue that hasn't bothered

my

> mom for some months but is now back - labile or rapidly shifting

> emotions. In the course of an hour she goes from calm and soft-

> spoken to distraught and inconsolable. Other times it's from calm

to

> frustrated about her lack of mobility and she becomes very angry

and

> combative (too weak to hurt anyone). This has happened very

> infrequently in the course of her disease (6 yrs PD and 4 LBD)

until

> this past summer. For five months she had a series of bacterial

and

> fungal infections that prompted a lot of this behavior. Those have

> been cleared up. The MD wanted to decrease her Seroquel, so it's

now

> down from 75 mg at bed to 50 mg. She's also on 24 mg total

Razadyne

> daily, 25/100 Sinemet 3X day and 15 mg Lexapro. My inclination is

to

> raise the Seroquel a bit - she is so miserable when

> > upset and knows she is miserable, and the Seroquel does have a

> calming effect. Another ? is if the antidepressant is either too

> high, too low, or has stopped working. She is far away from her

home

> and friends, and is aware of that. The MD is okay, but sees mom

> rarely, and freely admits the caregivers are better at knowing how

> she is doing that he is. So as seems to happen to a lot of us,

> thinking about meds is on me.

> >

> > I am grateful for any ideas and help - many thanks.

> >

> > Peace, Lin

> >

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