>>so I should be able to get some expert advice from them. >>I am going to call them soon. >>Lanier Maddux Chattanooga T You wrote the above and the thought struck me "SOON" meaning some time in the near future BUT you need to call them TODAY as it may take awhile to get an appointment to get in to see someone and at least you would have a definite time scheduled... while you wait for "soon." ....call them both and get in to the one with the nearest opening...ask to be put on their waiting list for a cancellation to open a time for you........Good luck....Joan Hartman ----- Original Message ----- From: plmaddux <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 6:07 PM Subject: Bad reaction to sinemet, info please > Hello List Friends, > > Some more thoughts on my problem. It seems to me that if I did something > that would interfere with the proper benefit that I should have gotten from > the dose of sinemet, i.e , taken with food, or taken with protein etc..... > that the process that kept the drug from doing any good, would also have > kept the drug from doing anything bad also! In other words, it should not > have done anything ------"good or bad". Is this not logical? Whatever would > keep it from doing good would also keep it from doing bad. > > And yes, I know,I need better qualified medical advice, I have the phone > numbers of the Movement Disorder Division right here on my desk, of both > Vanderbuilt University and Emory University. I live about 2 and 1/2 hours > from both of them, so I should be able to get some expert advice from them. > I am going to call them soon. > > Lanier Maddux Chattanooga Tn. > > My original post to the list is as follows > > From: "plmaddux" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Bad reaction to sinemet, info please > Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 7:28 PM > > I just took my first dose of sinemet and am having a bad reaction, I have > tremor as only symptom, took 1/2 of 25/100 witha light meal at 5pm, two > hours later my tremor in 4 times as violent as it has ever been, just talked > to doctor, he was no help, just said that sometimes sinemet does not help > tremor. what is going on here, i never heard of sinemet making sympoms worse > rather than better. > > Lanier Maddux 64,4 > > _____________________________________________ > NetZero - Defenders of the Free World > Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > > > _____________________________________________ > NetZero - Defenders of the Free World > Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html >