No, not eldepryl alone, but alone for two years and then, the last four,
with requip, initially on the Smith-Kline study.  For six years the disease
progressed very slowly (at least so it appeared) but lately has been
charging ahead (a rather useless rigihit ihiand - note the unedited
typiing!)  But if eldepryl is maintaing you, you migiht just save the rest
for later.

Bob Dolezal  62/6

At 6:03 PM 2/16/98, kbutton wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am a newcomer to your list.  (Thank you, Barbara P. for the warm
>welcome.)
>
>I have a question I would like to ask, but first I'll introduce myself.
>
>My name is Katharine, but everyone calls me Kitty, and I would be
>pleased to have you do the same.  I am sixty-nine years old, a fact
>which I usually don't tell, but which, in this context, it seems
>appropriate to be truthful about.  I live with my wonderful husband,
>Bill, in a condominium apartment that is much too small for two
>creative, active people, but has such a glorious view of the Gulf of
>Mexico, we can't imagine living anywhere else.
>
>Twenty years ago I watched my father, whom I adored, die of Parkinson's
>Disease.
>
>In June of 1995 I was hospitalized with a severe triple pneumonia.  The
>day after I returned home, I remember reaching over to my bedside table
>to get a sip of water, and I was so weak that my hand shook and I could
>barely lift the glass.  Well, eventually I got my strength back, and was
>doing my usual two to three mile hike down the beach every day, but, you
>guessed it, the tremor was here to stay.  Sometimes it would be
>marginally better, and sometimes worse, but apparently it was mine to
>keep.
>
>Finally, a year and a half later, in December of 1996, I went to a
>neurologist who confirmed my worst fear.  It was the dreaded P.D.   My
>first thought was suicide.  I couldn't bear the thought of being
>incapacitated and dependent.  I was really pretty crazy for a while.  I
>couldn't believe that this had happened to me.
>
>But, somehow, with great support and encouragement from Bill, I have
>managed to change my tune.  I realize that I am extremely fortunate
>because so far I am not really incapacitated at all.  I still have the
>tremor and a sort of interior "jitter" in my right leg.  But both of
>these I can easily live with, and my neurologist tells me that it is a
>very slow moving disease and I might not get substantially, or even any,
>worse in the near future.  He put me on Eldepryl, two bright turquoise
>capsules per day.
>
>Which brings me, at last, to my question:  Is there anyone out there who
>has taken Eldepryl, and only Eldepryl, for two years, or three years, or
>even longer, without a substantial worsening of symptoms or the need to
>go on to Sinemet?
>
>I would be very grateful to hear from such a person.
>
>Please forgive me for writing so much.  I didn't know how to make it
>shorter.  I  feel very privileged to be a member of the list.  I send
>you all my greetings and best wishes and look forward eagerly to hearing
>from some of you.
>
>Cheers,  Kitty B.