I've been on amantadine for about a year, and I like it. It's helped all symptoms. I almost gave it up, however, because of constipation side effect, but now take propulsid for that. Constipation is still there a little, but not as bad -- overall, I like amantadine best of all the meds I've tried. Charlie Baraach On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Obrand wrote: > Hi, I mostly just read and get information from the list serve, but my > father has some questions regarding "Amantadine." I hope I'm spelling it > correctly. He is presently on Artane and not getting much relief from > it. He's only real symptom as so far is a tremor in his left hand and > nothing seems to help him. So now he would like to know about > "Amantadine", like the side effects, dosage, effectiveness, etc. Also he > would like to know about Symmetrel - this could be wrong spelling as well > - is this they same as "Amantadine" or something else? Or is there some > other medication that could help his tremor? > > Thanks so much! > Jo-Ann Obrand, father 63/3 yrs > > [log in to unmask] >