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Laureen has never taken extremely high doses of medication, compared to some other PDers we know. For most of her PD tenure, she played it safe with meds, delaying the point at which the side effects of medication would become less tolerable than the PD itself. She eventually did reach the latter point, however, which is why Dr. Grinstein's program appealed so much to her. Since being on RG-40 and other extracts, she has, over the past 8 months or so, been able to reduce her Sinemet (the only PD drug she takes) to two doses of 10/100 daily. (That's a reduction of over 50 percent.) Since being on the extracts, however, she has developed (to mention the top two) the PD shuffle and lip tremors (neither of which either of us had noticed over the 8 years or so prior to the extract program). Now, one will say that the aforementioned symptoms are to be expected in a PD patient. I'm sure that many of our list members endure them regularly. The point is, these symptoms emerged or became exacerbated since taking extracts. Laureen's take on the situation is that the symptoms are due to her reduction in meds, not because she's taking the extracts. In John's case, how much RG-40 (how many grams) did he find to be equal to what dosage of Sinemet? Scott cg Laureen 55, 9+ >===== Original Message From Parkinson's Information Exchange Network <[log in to unmask]> ===== >> If anything, she has symptoms now that she did not have prior to taking >> the extracts. > > >May I ask you which symptoms? John has been taking RG40 for over a year. He >has been able to give up Requip totally and his attention span is almost back >to normal. He find a dose of RG40 = one dose of sinemet. The only problem is >delivery of the extract is somewhat haphazard so now he takes it only >once/day. Was doing better with 2-3x/day. >Maryse cg John 76,16 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn Scott E. Antes Department of Anthropology Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn