Pat Schark, I will have to try biting my lower lip while I pinch the upperlip. that is a new one. Where did you find/learn this? My attempts to avoid early dystonia and cramps work usually if I take some levodopa an hour or two before I actually get up to stay so to speak. However, the necessity exists for me to eat a couple of plain crackers or rykrisp or a prune or two and take some liquid to get the digestive juices flowing so that the stuff gets into the bloodstream. I find that the same problem can occur during the day or evening more than it used to - actually, it never occurred for years, then in morning only; now, it happens when I do not pay attention to taking a half pill every two hours or so *and* eating a bit soon thereafter. The popcorn might do the trick with maybe a slug of orange juice. ron 1936, dz PD 1984 Ronald F. Vetter <[log in to unmask]> http://www1.ridgecrest.ca.us/~rfvetter/