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In message <[log in to unmask]> writes: > Your message was not delivered to the following recipients: > > [log in to unmask]: No such host: listserv.tc.umn.edu > > ---------------- Your original message ---------------- > Received: from maroon.tc.umn.edu by mhub2.tc.umn.edu; Tue, 23 Apr 96 17:04:06 > -0500 > Received: from dialup-15-a-130.gw.umn.edu by maroon.tc.umn.edu; Tue, 23 Apr > 96 17:04:00 -0500 > From: "Robert B. Howard" <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Sinemet and Nausea > Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 23 Apr 96 17:04:06 -0500 > > In message <[log in to unmask]> Parkinson's Disease > > - > Information Exchange Network utoronto.ca writes: > > Dear Dora Walters > > I also started on Sinemet three weeks ago, same dosage, 25/100, with the > > same > > results: nausea; worsening of some symptoms like hoarsness and > > incontinence; > > but no improvement in the other symptoms except for balance/festination > > which > > is about 50% better. Ernie Peters says the nausea took 2 months to go > > away, > > but I'm wondering if it should take that long for any beneficial effects to > > be noticeable. I take 5mg Eldepryl once in the morning and again at noon, > > plus vitaminins A, E, and C, and am on ERT. I take Sinemet 45-60 minutes > > before eating, restrict protein at breakfast and lunch to @ 5 - 6 grams > > each > > and then eat a normal dinner. Since the last pill of the day didn't seem > > to > > help even the one symptom, possibly because of my protein intake, and made > > me > > too sick to enjoy dinner, I've skipped it the last few days and don't seem > > to > > be the worse for it. So much for the honeymoon; I,m considering a > > "divorce," > > at least until my symptoms are worse than the regimen. > > > > Kathy ([log in to unmask]) > > Kathy - It does seem odd that nausea continues for 3 weeks - and without > clear-cut relief of symptoms. My wife started Sinemet about 10 years ago at > 2.5 > 25/100 tablets each day with only one or two bouts of mild nausea, (She now > takes 11 to 13 tablets each day at about 2 hour intervals, 1.5 tablets each > dose.) She has no nausea. She does have some dyskinesia, but she feels worse > on > too little Sinemet than on too much. Pity the early Levodopa users who were > taking 1000 mgm. doses. Good luck! Bob Howard > > > Bob Howard, occasionally known formally as: > Robert B. Howard <[log in to unmask]> > 1320 Wisconsin St. > Hudson, WI 54016 > Voice phone (714) 386 3596 > Bob Howard, occasionally known formally as: Robert B. Howard <[log in to unmask]> 1320 Wisconsin St. Hudson, WI 54016 Voice phone (714) 386 3596