I've tried it with food and without food; nothing much helps. It usually happens with the morning dose; often I end up going back to bed for a few hours, losing the morning entirely.
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Napiejoe
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Parkinson's:
4 yrs
Hoehn-Yahr 1
Type: Parkinsonism (unknown cause)
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1. Use trial and error to find best frequency for you.
2. Do not withhold medication-there is no benefit to doing this and you could end up speeding the progression of the disease.
3. Clearly the most effective PD medication for me.
When I first started this 11 months ago, I felt so light and free on my feet. Much easier to type. Much more effective than Mirapex which made me tired). Then, I started getting more rigid, so the Dr increased the dose from from 1 tab 3x a day to 1.5 tabs 3x a day. I developed dyskenisia immediatley. Very disappointed, but he said i was very sensitive to it and that is also good. So, I dropped back to 1 tab 3x a day with the addition of amantadine 100mg 2x a day.
I may experiment with 1.25tabs dosage to try to get the max.
Dr said increasing the amantadine may contribute to insomnia.
Separate, by one hour, protein intake from treatment. Doing this separation, I'm
told, assures the strongest possible impact of the treatment. My experience supports this.
Thus far, I have had done of the Dyskinesia that I feared. However I have read that it takes up to 4 years to get these uncontrollable body ticks.
Cost
< $25 monthly
Date
Mar 03, 2010
Advice & Tips
It is like a night and day improvement. I wish that I had started on it earlier. Many of my symptoms have beem minimized.
Cost
< $25 monthly
Date
Feb 04, 2010
Advice & Tips
Since beginning Sinemet in 10-09 I can tell a great improvement. When I was only on Mirapex and Azilect, I have many PD symptoms that were not under control. The medicine would only work for about 3 months and then the symptoms yould return. Now that I am on Sinemet, it is like a day and night improvement. The sinemet has almost made the symptoms disappear; something that the Mirapex and Azilect did not do.
Cost
< $25 monthly
Date
Nov 14, 2009
Advice & Tips
I started taking Sinemet kickingi and dragging. I had been on Azilect andn Mirapex for over 18 months. My PD symptoms were increasing: the arm tremors were increasing, walking was turning back into shuffling, I felt confused, etc. I have been on Sinemet for about 3 weeks and I must admit that I haven't felt this good in years. I am talking better, less mumbling, I am actually moving more quickly.
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