Posted by mrporter1 on June 12, 2003, at 14:42:46
In reply to Re: hypertensive crisis, posted by Jack Smith on June 12, 2003, at 12:29:45
My Mom takes Parnate and has had 2 serious incidents. One crisis associated with some type of liquor in food and the other balsamic vinegar (real balsamic).
It has been very hard to convince ER people that she knows what's going on and what they need to do. In fact, she suffered a significant hearing loss during one crisis and we think that had the ER staff been more responsive, she might have been ok.
She is extremely careful about food - especially restaurants. The two times that she had trouble, she was told that the dishes were ok when the actually weren't.
It's tough, really tough. But she hasn't had any success with other AD's.
We have our fingers crossed for the Selegiline patch.
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