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At 06:01 2001/05/01 -0400, William A. Parrette wrote: >Hi all, > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, the digest contained: > >> ... >> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:45:56 +0100 >> From: dick pearce <chris&[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: REQUIP AND SELEGILINE >> >> Does anyone have any experience of the combination of Selegiline with >> Requip? It has been suggested that I start taking Selegiline for rigidity >> and neuroprotection but I am a bit reluctant to stop Requip. (I,m on 1 >> mg/3x/day). >> ... > > I may be wrong here (and that wouldn't surprise me :-) ), but > I was under the impression that Selegiline's purpose was to slow > the demise of the dopamine cells -- to slow the progression of > the disease. i believe that selegiline is also effective symptomatically -- it is with me -- some newbies are started on it as their sole pd medication janet selegilinicated since 1988 janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky PD: 54/41/37 CD: 54/44/43 TEL: 613 256 8340 EMAIL: [log in to unmask] "a new voice" home page: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . "new voice news" latest posts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nvnNET/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn