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pine` ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 06:35:46 -0500 (CDT) From: P. Schark <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Eating and Meds HELP! Has anyone figured out how to eat and still utilize medication? I'm finding lately that everything I eat, not just protein, causes me to turn off about and hour and a half after eating. I can then be "off" for 2-3 hours. Here's what I've tried: 1. Eating low-protein or no-protein meals. Doesn't make much difference one way or the other. 2. Eating two instead of three meals so I won't be "off" as much. Doesn't work because I'm so hungry I eat a lot and am "off" for a longer time. 3. "Grazing" instead of eating formal meals. It doesn't matter if I snack or sit down to a meal - any eating interferes. 4. Taking propulsid or cysipride, which supposedly speeds up the digestive process. Theoretically, this would make the medication available to the brain faster. Had the opposite effect for me. It upset my digestive system, and the medications took longer to reach my brain and I was "off" longer. 5. Supplementing sinemet CR with a 10/100. The doctor suggested 1/2 regular sinemet along with a CR taken 15 minutes to a half hour before eating. Didn't work because I was "off" the same amount of time; then everything kicked in at once and I was over-medicated and had dyskinesias. Liquid sinemet has been suggested before, but I find it inconvenient and get the same effect from chewing a 10/100. It usually kicks in within 20-30 minutes - if I don't eat. When I eat, all bets are off. Here's my regimen: 1/2 regular sinemet at 4:30 A.M, one CR every two hours beginning at 5 AM. 1/2 CR at bedtime; another 1/2 at 1 AM. I'm at my wit's end. I've lost weight because I can't eat and go anywhere or do anything, but I can't afford to lose any more weight either. Anyone have any ideas? (I could sure use Alan Bonander now! Alan had an intestinal shunt to deal with this problem. Does anyone know where I can get some info about that?) Thanks Pat Schark pine`