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Ariela, Nancy has had PD for 30 Years. She had bilateral pallidotomies in 1995. She has had dyskinesia for 20 years. The pallidotonies virtually eliminated the dyskinesia in 1995. Over the past 10 years some dyskinesia has returned and amantadine manages it quite nicely. She has used amantadine on and off for at least 20 years. In the early days it seemed to work best by using it for 6-12 months then removing it for a month then resuming. I have never heard a scientific basis for our success. The recent change to stalevo and parcopa have worked very well. Nancy is now paralysed from the waste down and was hospitalized when we made the switch. The paralysis is a long story of PD, scoliosis and back surgeries and not a typical PD story. Regards, Bob Bob Martone [log in to unmask] http://www.shawus.com/bmartone -----Original Message----- From: ariela [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:08 AM To: [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: (my progress report) / AMANTADINE... ? / calibration (Bob) thanks, bob. can you please tell if the amantadine indeed controls nancy's dyskinesia? and how long has she been taking it? from the numbers you quote, wow, she's really reduced her levodopa intake by quite a bit! how long has she had PD, and how long has she been on this new regimen now? regards, ariela ==== > Hi, > > Haven't had much to say in a long time. But do have recent experience > with Stalevo and long term experience with amantadine. Stalevo seems > to work very well for my wife Nancy (3d week now). She was able to > reduce the sinemet intake from five 50/250's and one 25/100 to four > Stalevo 150's and one Parcopa 100 and occasionally a Parcopa rescue. > She has eliminated four 200 MG Comtans. She takes three or Four > Amantadine 100 MG per day to manage any dyskinesia side effects. > > Summary:went from 1350 MG sinemet to 600 MG Stalevo and 100MG Parcopa. > > There are many other variables that I can't get into now but maybe > this will help. > > Bob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn