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bernardo klainberg wrote: > > After 8 yrs with PD I am still taking only eldepryl,and 1M vit.e. > daily, AND frankly, I do not know if my slowly developing pd is due to that. > i do not intend to start on l-dopa till it really interferes with my > life,having heaard so many horror stories all these years, > > many ,many times, i wonder if i shud stop even the eldepryl ? every > neurologist has a different opinion, > perhaps people on this board know better......... > > don b. For what it's worth Don.... Just one more word about Selegiline (A.K.A. Eldepryl, Deprenyl, etc), but I'll bet it wont be the last word on the subject. I took myself off Eldepryl about 2 months ago for a number of reasons not the least of which was I didn't like the fuzzy feeling in my head that the medication caused. Second reason, it's expensive, $118 a month. Measure the cost against the fact that my Neurodoc couldn't tell me what, if any benefit I could expect to get from the med and the decision got easier. I have read a number of articles about Selegiline over the last 4 or 5 years and almost without exception, every statement of alleged benefits of the drug is preceded by "may..." or "it is thought by some to...." or some such qualifier. Does even the manufacturer know for certain if there is any benefit from this medication? The final straw was the manufacturers "value in persistancy" program. To me it sounded like..."it may not do any good but keep taking it folks just in case...." I'm not from Missouri but even Vermonters want to be shown. Ben McKeen [log in to unmask] age 62, 10 years a Parky,