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At 07:35 PM 5/28/00 -0700, you wrote: >David thank you for your response. Could you please tell me your progression >of Sinemet pre operation was and what you considered too high dosage. Thank >you > First I want to tell you why I think Dr. Burchiel is a great Dr. My daughter who at that tine lived in Cumberland MD, amd she was thn six months Pregnant flew out to be with her dad when he had brain surgery. Tha meant a lot to me. In Novenber she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Shortly aftermth e birth she began haviing severe head aches. Then one night she had one so severe she wen into convolsions. Her husband rushed her to the hospital. A brain scan revealed a mass the size of an orange on her brain. the hospital at Cumberland was not equiped to deal with something of that nature. She would have had to go to Pittsburgh or Johns Hopkins. That winter was especially bad that year. the short story in that i talked to Dr Burchiel and the insurance said it would be all ight to go to Oregon for the surgery. Dr Burchiel spent 11 hours removing the tumor. that was after doing a pallodotomy that morning. he came up where we were waiting and told us thgat she would probably need extensive physical therapy following that kind of surgery. She did not need aany physical therapy. just a few short months later and no one would Guess she had had tht surgery. she has been perfectly healthy since. I think that Dr. Burchiel is one fine neorosurgeon. i dont remember all the details except at one time I was taking 5 25/250 Sinemet per day at one time until Dr Sund drastically cut back my intake of Sinemet to four 25/100 and four permax. i think they were 25 mg. i now am taking Four 50/200 Cr and four 1.5 mg mirapex. next week i am going to switch to Requip. I am still havubg very little dyskinesia. And I am still working which i think i will do for about another two years. I have a woodworking shop in my garage. to see some of my work look at http://www.teleport.com/~davelm