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My husband has also experienced significant weight loss and a newly-gained capacity to NOT put on weight since the worsening of his Parkinson's symptoms several years ago. He currently takes 5 sinemet 25/100 + 5 sinemet 50/200 daily. He has severe tremors (bilateral -- arms, hands, legs/feet + head) and also has essential tremor (has action, intention and resting tremors) and he has lost the most weight at the time when his tremors have been the worst -- I think both because of calories burned through the constant shaking and because of the fact that bad tremors make it difficult for him to eat. L-dopa related nausea/loss of appetite doesn't help. He also suffers from periodic episodes of severe depression (which are sometimes associated with total loss of appetite and other times associated with an uncontrollable urge to eat tons of ice cream). Annette, wife & caregiver of Ken On 7/16/07, Nick <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > My wife is a 15 year Parkie. She started losing weight about a year ago, > and has gone from 105 to 85. She has a good appetite, eats a balanced > diet. She is still losing weight. She takes amantidine , 2tabs twice a > day, and 2 sinemet 25/100 before bedtime. Has this happened to any other > Parkies? Is this directly related to her Parkinson's disease? Please help. > > Nick > husband & caregiver > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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