Mario, If I had an answer to that, I would shout it from the rooftops. Instead, I am right behind you, in line for the answer. I think you've asked a $64,000,000 question. Some people who correspond on this list, say they function more or less normally with medication. I don't know how they define "function" and "normal" but the implication is that they can continue with pre PD activities to a reasonable degree of satisfaction. I am not one of them. My active day (on a good day) is, at most, 5 hours long, 3 in the morning and about 2 more in the mid afternoon. The rest of it is sedentary and disappointingly nonproductive or worse. NKP On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 11:15 AM, Mario A. Gonzalez wrote: > Hi > this has been perplexing me for the longest of time. > All things being equal, a PWP gets up in the morning, > he/she is slow, a bit disoriented, confused, but otherwise, > can function with a certain degree of confidence until the meds are > taken, in order to be better. > So far so good. > If the PWP takes a Sinemet Regular (yellow pill), > the PWP now gets into what I call the "sinemet domain". > If for any reason, the PWP "forgets" to take a follow-up > dose or allows the sinemet to become depleted, the PWP > not only goes back to his wake-up condition, but gets > carried further, to dead-zone state, all life taken out, > inert, unable to speak, move, entropy set in. > Question: > what or why does this happen? and can it be corrected/avoided? > Sincerely, > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > Mario > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn