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George/Scott, It's none of my business, and I'm jumping into the middle of a thread, but I can't help commenting on the dosages I'm reading for Requip especially (for what it's worth). According to my Movement Disorder Specialist, and everything I've heard and read about Requip, 6mg of Requip is just about the very least you can take for a therapeutic effect. Now I suppose that some people may have had a beneficial effect with 4 or 5, but 6-7mg/day is considered the start of a therapeutic dose for Requip. You can go up to 24 mg/day, although that is the max. Incidentally, the dosing is very different from Mirapex, which, mg for mg, is much more potent. I started with Mirapex, and found it harder to take than Requip, and found that after trying for months, I couldn't get past 1 1/2 mg/day--1/2, 3 times per day. My doctor had me switch to 7mg of Requip after a short titration, and I found that, yes indeed, 7 mg was just about the equivalent of 1 1/2 mg of Mirapex. The max for Mirapex is, I believe, around 6 mg. Also, most people take 25/100, rather than 50/200, although you are taking extended release. Extended release doesn't work real well for a lot of people. Have you tried regular Sinemet with Comtan? I hope you don't mind my little opinions and ideas. Good luck to you both. Charlotte Mancuso On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:13:50 -0700 scott burnett <[log in to unmask]> writes: > george, > Your situation sounds similar to mine. Same time schedule, > similar > problems but add on neck and back pain, fatigue and a feeling of > "not being > right" when I'm off. I recently upped my dosage of requip to 6 mg a > day > and that helped some. Stress really makes a difference to me so > the issue > of continued work is of real concern. I am changing to what I hope > is a > much less stressful position next school year so I evaluate that as > time > goes on. I spent several weeks looking into the California State > Teachers > Retirement systems disability set up aand it looks pretty good. > Even > though I intend to keep working and adapting my schedule and > workload as > much as I'm allowed, it made me feel alot better to have the info at > hand. > Someone from the list put it very well I thought when they wrote, > "I have > a cup of energy to use each day, and I have to decide where I want > to use > it; at work, with friends or with family." That's not an exact > quote but > you get the point. Somewhere down the road, all of us PWP's will > have to > make a personal choice. When and where it will be is up to us. > Scott from California > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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