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My husband just reduced his sinemet from 7 per day to nothing with the doctor's advise of dropping one tablet per day so he could have been down to no sinemet in one week. We dropped it slower at the beginning and then dropped the last two tablets within two days. Norma Paul Lauer wrote: > I need some help with a hypothetical. > > Say one is taking a fairly high dose of Sinemet; say 7 regular 25/100 per > day. Say one takes Lodosyn for nausea. Say one decided to titrate down to > test the result of reducing the dose on the PD symptoms. Say one eliminated > one Sinemet 25/100 per week for 4 weeks with no change in PD symptoms. Say > one then waited 2 or three weeks and then unable to tolerate the slow pace of > the downward titration, eliminated the last three Sinemet and the Lodosyn in > one fell swoop. Ignoring the possible effects on PD, is there any side effect > danger of this abrupt elimination? > > Thanks, > > Paul H. Lauer > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn