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Norma, what was the reason for stopping Sinemet? I had just recently started on Sinemet. Is he taking other medications? [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norma Dikeman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: Re: stopping meds abruptly > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn