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you might want to talk to your doctor about increasing your mirapex. recommended maximum dosage id 1.5mg./3xday. seems you have a bit of room.this is in the for what it's worth category. we each seem to react differently to our medications. murph 57/9 On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 00:14:05 -0500 "Mario A. Gonzalez" <[log in to unmask]> writes: > For the last years I have had a Mild to Moderate PD. I have been > getting by on > 25/100 Sinemet 1 a day, 1 MG Mirapex 3 X day and Eldepryl 2 X day. > I had heart bypass surgery on Nov 1998. Beginning on March 1999, I > started to > feel a heavyness in my legs, but I did not pay much attention to > that, walking > took care of it. > Last November, I experienced what I called a Frozen state where I > almost keeled over. > I talked to my Neurologist who said that I was on a very low dosage > of Sinemet, so he > upped it to 25/100 twice a day. > That has not helped much, I notice that any kind of physical > activity gives me the > heavy legs. Whereas before walking helped, now it aggravates it. > I have read about INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION, SCIATICA and a host of > other > possibiities, but I guess my question is: Can this be caused by an > acceleration of > PD to a different stage? > Need your comments, please. > > thanks, > > Mario A Gonzalez [log in to unmask] 53/4 >