Rick:
:>)
I'm showing this to alan...
thanks for sharing
patti


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From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network
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Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:42 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Effect of Requip on PD

Sami et al, Re: Requip: I have been taking Requip (ropinerole) for 7 years
or so, and I finally quit the stuff last week.  I just could not take the
continual exhaustion and sleepiness which overtook me daily, so I went to my
neuro and he took me off it.  I was last on a dose of 3mg 3 times a day and
have been on doses greatly varying from this level.  I don't know what
implications I will unearth, but two things have happened since my Dr.'s
visit:
1) Sleepiness hasn't overtaken me mid-day, and my energy level has increased
2) Despite an increase of Stalevo from 50 to 100mg times 3 per day, my
tremors have noticeably become stronger.

I used to tolerate unheard of amounts of requip, and now I can't
imagine...kind of like my career as a pot smoker.

Frankly, my dears, I don't give a damn about the twitch if I can stay awake
and alert.  

And Sami, I have given up on organizing or clearing my 'in box'!  Hopefully
I won't delete my million dollar prize!

Enjoy!
Rick McGirr

-----Original Message-----
From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sami
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:01 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Effect of Requip on PD

As you can see, I am way behind in reading my mail.  

Carl, It never hurts to check the e-mails before you delete them.  There may
just be something in one of them that can help and don't we all need that
little boost that's in the e-mail that you accidently delete?

Sami



From: carl grame

Date: 9/13/2009 11:00:23 PM

To: [log in to unmask]

Subject: Re: Effect of Requip on PD

 

I do delete all of them but that takes time. Is there any other option?

 

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Kathleen Cochran <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> If you don't want to read it, delete it. End of story.

>

> 2009/9/11 carl grame <[log in to unmask]>

>

>> I don't look at any of your emails, there are just too many from you.

>> What else do you do?

>>

>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM, rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> > 9th September 2009 - New research

>> > THE EFFECT OF ROPINIROLE (REQUIP) ON PARKINSON'S DISEASE

>> >

>> > Clinical neurology and neurosurgery [2009] Sep 2 [Epub ahead of print]

>> > (Valldeoriola F, Cobaleda S, Lahuerta J.) Complete abstract

>> >

>> > Ropinirole is a dopamine agonist that is commonly used in the treatment

>> of

>> > Parkinson's Disease. It is often sold as Requip, Ropark, or Adartrel.
For

>> > more information go to Ropinirole. Ropinirole was found to be mostly
used

>> as

>> > an add on treatment (in 76% of cases), and as the only treatment in

>> around a

>> > quarter (24%) of those people using it. The average maintenance dose
was

>> > found to be 9mg per day, and normally be within the range 4mg to 15mg.

>> Over

>> > a quarter (28%) of people taking Ropinirole reported adverse reactions.

>> The

>> > most frequent adverse reactions were somnolence and sedation (9%),

>> > gastrointestinal symptoms (7%), increase in dyskinesia (6%), and

>> orthostatic

>> > symptoms (4%). Treatment using Ropinirole was withdrawn in 14% of

>> patients,

>> > largely because of either adverse reactions, lack of efficacy, or
change

>> in

>> > treatment. Over 80% of people taking Ropinirole were considered by
their

>> > neurologists to have improved after taking it. In order to refer to
this

>> > article on its own click here.

>> >

>> > 5th September 2009 - New research

>> > RETINAL STEM CELLS DISAPPEAR AFTER SURGERY FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE

>> >

>> > Neurology [2009] Sep 2. [Epub ahead of print] (Farag ES, Vinters HV,

>> > Bronstein J.) Complete abstract

>> >

>> > Retinal pigment epithelial cells have been found to disappear after
being

>> > used in a form of surgery intended for use in Parkinson's Disease. For

>> > years, the use of implanted stem cells have been claimed to have the

>> > potential  to rid Parkinson's Disease. One of these means is the use of

>> RPE

>> > (retinal pigment epithelium) cells. These cells are found in the eyes
and

>> > can also produce dopamine, the substance whose deficiency causes

>> Parkinson's

>> > Disease. A 68-year-old man underwent surgical implantation of 325,000
RPE

>> > cells in Spheramine (gelatin microcarriers) for the treatment of

>> Parkinson's

>> > Disease. He happened to die six months after the surgery took place.
This

>> > enabled the researchers to see what happened to retinal stem cells
after

>> > surgical implantation. Over 99.9% of the cells had disappeared after
only

>> > six months. Implanted cells simply failed to survive. A previous study

>> using

>> > the same methods demonstrated only a moderate benefit for six months.
For

>> > more details see the Complete abstract. Despite different forms of stem

>> cell

>> > surgery now being carried out in countries around the world, there is
not

>> > even one study in the entire medical literature showing that anybody
has

>> > ever been rid of Parkinson's Disease by this means.  In order to refer
to

>> > this article on its own click here.

>> >

>> > Rayilyn Brown

>> > Director AZNPF

>> > Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation

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