Regarding Wendy Tebay's question about Sugar and PD. I find that I have an incredible "sweet tooth". I cant really say if its PD related, but my use of sugar does seem to be on rise. For me , though I find cookies and candies excellent "pushers" to get the drugs moving through the system. When I was still working, my midafternoon dose of regular Sinemet and Permax was always followed by trip to machines for Snickers and Soda(caffeine-free!!) I have recently found Gatoraide to work well at getting the pills out of the stomach.