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I had almost the same experience with amantadine as Nic described. I've had PD for 15 years, and was doing well the for the first ten, but then it became trickier trying to balance taking enough meds to be on and able to function, and also trying to avoid dyskinesia, which was becoming more disabling than the PD symptoms themselves. My current meds are 1/2 levodopa/carbidopa and 3 mg. Ropinerole every three hours; also Tasmar 3 times a day. The dyskinesias were getting worse though and a few weeks ago i started on amantadine, which has been really effective in controlling the squirming - some days i don't get dyskinetic at all, and surprisingly i'm finding my other PD symptoms seem to have improved too. Of course what we really need is a treatment that stops PD and regenerates our neurons. Tell Congress not to cut the NIH budget for medical research! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn