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hi bill, i know a little bit about amantadine, but only a little. first, i believe it can help ameliorate dyskinesias - i have read that this effect is relatively short-term (6 months to a year, which, for most parkinson's researchers, qualifies as long-term, at least when one is referring to sinemet - however, relative to how long most people live with Parkinson's, one year is decidedly short term) and i know of one person for whom it worked well in that capacity. I started taking it myself at one point - my neuro thought it would restore my ability to write with pen and paper. however, on the day i finally reached the target dosage, right about at noon, every time i would start to speak, my lower jaw would start doing a little convulsive-type jig up and down, and my throat would close, rendering me unable to speak. ironically, i was on the phone with my health insurance provider at the time, and the guy kept having to finish my sentences for me. he did a very good job, now that i think about it. needless to say, i was deeply disturbed by this - difficult to work these days if one lacks the ability to speak - so i stopped the amantadine immediately. my neuro thought the jaw jig was myclonus caused by the interaction between amantadine and wellbutrin, both of which can have that effect. whatever it was, while it subsided significantly immediately upon stopping the amantadine, it did not stop completely for at least 6 months -haven't noticed it recently, so maybe whatever damage was done by my taking it has been repaired. and that is all i know. --- "William P. Taggart" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > AMANTADINE? > > My neuro is proposing that I add Amantadine to my > meds... (I'm > primarily on Sinemet.). > > I'd like to hear any input you'd care to share... > > Many thanks. Bill > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn