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Dear Ray, How high was the dossage of Sinemet that you took? How long did you take Sinemet? Have you ever gone back and taken it again? In the early stages of my PD, Sinemet had NO Effect on my functionality. I stopped taking it. It was only later when I returned to taking it at a high dossage (25/100 ten pills a day) that I noticed that effected my body. Regards, David >From: rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Parkinson's Disease May Be Treated By Electric Current >Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:19:57 -0700 > >thanks Maryse, this sounds less intrusive than DBS. I always wondered why >electricity could help my tremors (which are returning I'm sorry to report) >when I lack dopamine. Ray >----- Original Message ----- >From: "M.Schild" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 11:18 PM >Subject: Parkinson's Disease May Be Treated By Electric Current > > >>Parkinson's Disease May Be Treated By Electric Current >>This Article >>Also Appears In >>Neurology/Neuroscience >> >>Article Date: 25 Mar 2006 - 0:00am (UK) >> >>A simple and efficient method that facilitates Parkinson's disease >>treatment >>has been developed by researchers of the Institute of Human Brain, Russian >>Academy of Sciences. Influence of feeble electric current on the brain via >>electrodes laid on the head skin - the so-called transcranial electric >>polarization (TCEP) - reduces muscle tone and partially restores patients' >>movements. In combination with antiparkinsonian drug intake, TCEP reduces >>their side effect. >> >>Parkinson's disease is a chronic progressive degenerative disease of the >>central nervous system. Its main symptoms are - voluntary movements >>disorder, >>increased muscle tone (rigidity) and trembling (tremor). The disease was >>for >>the first time described by an English physician James Parkinson in 1817 >>in >>his "Essay on Shaking Palsy". The origin of the disease has not been fully >>investigated yet. >> >>Today, Parkinson's disease is no longer the destiny of elderly people, >>young >>people become increasingly its victims. This was declared by Igor >>Zavolokov, >>head of neurology department, clinics of the Institute of Human Brain, >>Russian Academy of Sciences. According to him, such conclusion was made by >>the St. Petersburg neurologists based on their experience of patient >>management. "Parkinson's disease is rather widespread, said the physician, >>about 1 percent of people older than 60 and about 5 percent of people >>older >>than 80 suffer from it, however, recently the disease is more and more >>often >>registered with the 30-year old patients. Not long ago, a 19-year old girl >>was diagnosed with this disease." According to the researchers' opinion, >>this >>situation is due to increasing negative impact of the environment and >>genetic >>anomalies accumulation. >> >>The drugs that parkinsonism patients have to take lifelong often have >>strong >>side effects and therefore do not relieve the patient's state too much. >>Besides, the drugs lose their effectiveness with time. That is why >>researchers and physicians are in constant search for new remedies. >> >>Transcranial electric polarization may become one of such remedies, >>according >>to the opinion of researchers from the Institute of Human Brain, Russian >>Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. The experimental group involved 110 >>patients with stages of Parkinson's disease from 1 to 4, 80 patients were >>included in the main group where TCEP was applied, and the remaining 30 >>made >>the reference group and received only drugs. The patients from the main >>group >>did not give up the drugs either but in addition they received three to >>four >>sessions of electric therapy every other day. Continuous current of 2 >>milliampere acted for 15 minutes via cathode and anode on the head skin. >>The >>patients' state was assessed judging by intensity of main symptoms - >>movement >>rate, muscle tone and tremor - prior to the sessions and after them. >> >>According to physicians' observations, TCEP application resulted in >>reduction >>of reduntant muscle tone, increase in movement rate and also decrease of >>drug's side effects. The only thing TCEP had no influence on was tremor. >>Nevertheless, these are considerable results. Effectiveness of procedure >>influence on movements and muscle tone varied from 100 to 63.3 percent >>depending on the stage of disease. 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