As many of you know, my precious, fun, and funny father has had PD for probably close to 20 years, and a recent fall and surgery on the broken bone brought on psychosis. The condition comes and goes but has had very serious impacts on him and his family. The most serious problems involve Mom, who also wants to keep him out of institutional care. Dad is so content at home, but he is not himself at all during these psychotic episodes and cannot be trusted.
Because his balance has become poorer, neither we nor his neurologist trust Clozapine or Quetiapine. These are some of the more common atypical antipsychotics for treating PD hallucinations and delusional thinking, but they have a negative affect on motor skills. Our dad fell a week ago and has 2 layers of several stitches above his eye. It is healing well, thankfully 🙌....and he also has some fun talking about "his boxing ring opponent giving him the black eye", haha. Since he falls now, we figure Nuplazid is worth a try.
After contacting our pharmacy and one other, we realize how expensive the medication is, and so the manufacturing company is working with insurance to supposedly get it for about $10 a month! Praying we can, and also that any side effects are very minimum and his delusions become less and less. It's scary trying new meds and especially newer ones with such varying success.
Will keep you posted.
Much love, thoughts and prayers...
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