When I was at the  8 year point I  had so much dyskinesia  that when i
took   any meds  I could not do anything. None of my meds were weorking for
me. I am   a wood  worker and could not, with safety,  run any of
my   machines. If  i took no meds
I would be  practically  frozen. so that did not work either. Then I had a
Pallidotomy   and  i haven't looked back. My dyskinesia stopped and my
meds  started working for ne



\t 10:16 AM 1/5/2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>        My Father has had Parkinson's for 8 years now. Almost from the start
>he has been on Bromocriptine and Siminet. From time to time his Neuro
>has tried other medications (Requip, Comtan) with very negative
>results. In the end my Father is worse off after having had tried the
>new medication then he was before.
>
>        Recently the side effects of the Bromocriptine & Siminet have
>worsened. In fact my Father seems to be better of in the morning before
>taking his first dosage. In the morning he has difficulty walking but
>can do so extremely slowly without ever falling, in addition his facial
>expressions, speech and upper body movement are much better in morning.
>As the day progresses and he takes more medication for a brief period
>he may experience some improvement walking but as the day goes on he
>experience more freezing and a great deal of involuntary movement to
>the point were he will fall down quite often and has a hard time doing
>just about everything.
>
>        So basically without medication he has problems walking but can do
>everything else reasonably well and with medication he can walk
>slightly better for perhaps 1 hour a day  but after that it's down hill
>from there, significantly.
>
>        Does this sound like something that could be helped with a medication
>vacation?
>
>        I am concerned that his neuro will simply suggest increasing his
>medication and I'm quite positive that will make things worse.
>
>        I would appreciate any suggestions.
>
>        Thank you.
>
>        Roberto Correia
>
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