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Hi Scott, I optimised the effectiveness of my medication by making the period between the first and 2nd dose of the day, 4 hours, and the rest 5 hours. ( 7 AM, 11 AM, 4 PM, and 9 PM) Nic 58/16 On 31 October 2010 16:42, Scott Burnett <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > For long-ti\me now I've been thinking about making a new schedule for taking my medications. It seemed like every day around two o'clock I had a total melt down, jaw dropped, Parkinson's mask in place. I remember reading somewhere that taking your medication after eating a lot of protein was sort of a bad idea, like levodopa would not work as well as it should. My original schedule was 8 AM, 11:30 AM, 3 PM and 7:30 PM. For the last three days I have been using the new schedule: 9:30 AM, 2 PM, 7 PM and bedtime. I have not changed the sequence the pills I take, or the number of pills I take. So far the only real problem time is from 1:30 PM to 2 PM. 30 minutes a day of off time seems like a light load to me. As you can see, I spread the times out between doses so that I am lasting up to five hours between doses. Is It helpful to anybody? The extra on time is an added bonus and somewhat unexpected. I thought that by increasing the interval between doses decrease my off time? All I can say is that I felt very good today and for the last several days. Let's see if any changes stay in place and become part of the general health picture for me and other people with Parkinson's. The bottom line is the longer we can last I'm small dosages of levodopa longer I can have Parkinson's and still be able to do most of what I like to do a > Scott Burnett > [log in to unmask] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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