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Barb - you're really having a rough time. Sorry I have no advice and no experience which might help - but hang in there kiddo, we're rootin' for you! Barbara wrote: > To: Marjorie Moorefield and listserv, > > Thank you for your message. > > Your question: How do you go all day with no medication? It is very > difficult and the tremors and cramps are real bad. However, I can walk and > use my left hand only. The hard part is the very painful foot and leg cramps > if I try to sit still or ride in car etc. If I go anywhere I must take Sinemet. > > Your sleeping question: Do you use Sinemet as a sleeping pill? I am tired > at night and can easily fall asleep except for restless legs, cramps and > tremor which only stop with levodopa. If I take Sinemet during the day I do > not sleep, not even on a long air flight. So I don't consider Sinemet as a > sleeping pill, I simply cannot sleep with restless legs, cramps and tremors. > Unfortunately my tremors were first apparent while sound asleep. > > Thanks for your encouragement ......... BJ