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Carline has used Amantadine in the early stages of her PD. It helped reasonably well, but a undesirable known side effect was swelling of the ankles which eventually became red and it looked like the blood was oozing through the skin.. This eventually became bad enough that she had to stop using it. Type the name into Google and a number of sites will come up. This is one of the sites: www.rxlist.com/symmetrel-drug.htm. Symmetrel is the other name for Amantadine. K. F. cg Carline rayilynlee wrote: > John > > I am sending your question to the List because I think there are quite a few folks who have used Amantadine. I never have, so I don't know much about it. I'm thinking you just won't know until you try it - at least that has been my experience with Sinemet - it helped on the first dose but never again even though I tried it again twice after taking it for a year several years ago. Mirapex and Requip, Comtan and Stalevo didn't help either, but DBS stopped my tremors. I read somewhere that DBS was > the only thing that would help tremor. > > Good luck, Ray > > Rayilyn Brown > Director AZNPF > Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation > [log in to unmask] > > > From: JOHN YOCHIM > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:38 PM > To: rayilynlee > Subject: Question re Amantadine use > > > Ray, I am wondering if you or the folks on the listserve have experience using Amantadine 100mg medicine. My VA provider is recommending that in addition to Sinemet, that I take two > Amamtadine tablets per day. This is supposed to assist the Sinemet in controlling my PD symptoms including tremor. There are side effects of course, which I am aware of. > So, I would like to find out how well it is tolerated and if it has helped others. > I was diagnosed in 05 with PD but the sinemet has not worked well or me in helping with the symptoms. I continue to take sinemet as it seems to help with anxiety. Thanks for your help in the past and hopefully you can shed some light on my question. > Regards, > John Y. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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