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My wife Nancy went to her optometrist last week and had a pair of glasses tinted blue. This was done after experimenting with a felt tipped blue marker pen on a pair of her older glasses. The experiment did seem to provide relief from the drug induced dyskenisia that she suffers from taking Sinemet for 14 years. Seeing benefit, she took the postings from this list server and presented them to her optometrist for comment. The optometrist had not heard about this particular use for drug induced (Sinemet) dyskenisia but had an experience with a dyslexic child that she prescribed green glasses for and knew that some benefit had been derived. After very brief consultation she tinted a pair of Nancy s glasses in accordance with the theory expressed by Tom Reiss posting. She tinted the glasses so the peripheral vision received a darker blue than the central vision but cosmetically the tinting looks uniform and quite normal. After three days of use it is clear (but tinted) that these glasses are generating measurable benefits. The dyskenetic lateral movement of her head and the twisting of her upper torso has been reduced in frequency and in magnitude. Head movement while eating has been a major source of frustration as well as embarrassment. This movement often would span 6 inches to 12 inches and with a frequency of approximately one per second. During the three nights we have had dinner together those movements have been reduced to maybe three inches and to 1 per five second interval. Tonight at dinner there was no dyskenisia at all. This was after wearing the blue glasses virtually all day outside on a bright and sunny 65 degree Fahrenheit day. We both are truly impressed and Nancy will provide feedback over the next several weeks to let you all know how she is doing. Hopefully this is not a placebo effect. Many thanks Tom Reiss for your observations ________________________________________________________________ Bob Martone [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________