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We stopped because they were making him stoned. He slept all of the time and was
receiving NO benefits from the meds at all. At present he is not on any
medication for PD. Nothing worked so I didn't think he needed to be on them
since they had side effects which affected Gordie's quality of life. We are
trying Rob's supplement program right now.

Norma

ervinmccarthy wrote:

> Norma, what was the reason for stopping Sinemet?  I had just recently
> started on Sinemet.  Is he taking other medications?
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> ----- 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
> > >
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