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When I was at the 8 year point I had so much dyskinesia that when i took any meds I could not do anything. None of my meds were weorking for me. I am a wood worker and could not, with safety, run any of my machines. If i took no meds I would be practically frozen. so that did not work either. Then I had a Pallidotomy and i haven't looked back. My dyskinesia stopped and my meds started working for ne \t 10:16 AM 1/5/2004, you wrote: >Hello, > > My Father has had Parkinson's for 8 years now. Almost from the start >he has been on Bromocriptine and Siminet. From time to time his Neuro >has tried other medications (Requip, Comtan) with very negative >results. In the end my Father is worse off after having had tried the >new medication then he was before. > > Recently the side effects of the Bromocriptine & Siminet have >worsened. In fact my Father seems to be better of in the morning before >taking his first dosage. In the morning he has difficulty walking but >can do so extremely slowly without ever falling, in addition his facial >expressions, speech and upper body movement are much better in morning. >As the day progresses and he takes more medication for a brief period >he may experience some improvement walking but as the day goes on he >experience more freezing and a great deal of involuntary movement to >the point were he will fall down quite often and has a hard time doing >just about everything. > > So basically without medication he has problems walking but can do >everything else reasonably well and with medication he can walk >slightly better for perhaps 1 hour a day but after that it's down hill >from there, significantly. > > Does this sound like something that could be helped with a medication >vacation? > > I am concerned that his neuro will simply suggest increasing his >medication and I'm quite positive that will make things worse. > > I would appreciate any suggestions. > > Thank you. > > Roberto Correia > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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