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add another Disappointed REQUIP user. It used to knock me out, and so did MIRAPEX. M ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Adams" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 8:47 AM Subject: Requip, etc > For Dolores Buente: > I too had to discontinue Requip due to the severity of side effects after > more than two years of medication. I have been taking carbodopa/levidopa > since that time and the sleep attacks, swelling of ankles and legs, nausea, > etc have disappeared. I have a dry mouth condition that was attributed to > the Requip, but it is still with me now after 8 months cessation of Requip > dosages. I only wish I had never used Requip. It now seems to me that PD > affects people in so many individual ways that the research on these things > becomes quite dubious insofar as its efficacy. Read the manufacturers' > reports on their control groups experiences. Let us know how your new > medications work on you. > Right now I am taking 2 Sinemet generic 25/100 3 times a day and 1 > Coenzyme Q10 (75 mg) 2 times per day. I have just started the CO Q10 and > can't comment on it, and also 200 units of Vitamin E per day (on advice of > my neurologist). That is all of PD meds. I also take B12, Vitamin C, and a > general one a day vitamin. > Regards from a disappointed Requip user > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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