Ron Reiner wrote:
>>
>> I started ALC about 2 months ago. My symptoms are still relatively mild
>> (I've been diagnosed for out 1.5 yrs). My only PD prescriiption medication
>> is Eldepryl. But I''ve been finding walking increasingly more difficult.
>> However, unless it is my imagination, the ALC has put some of the "spring"
>> back in my step. I now ocassionally go through an entire workday without a
>> thought to PD. I buy the Twinlab 500MG 30-capsules bottles for $30.95 minus
>> a 15% discount the Nutrition Center gives on all Twinlab products. I take
>> two a day although I'm thinking of cutting back to one. I am spending about
>> 2 bucks a day for ALC which is what I used to spend on cigarettes many years
>> ago. If I'd stuck with the cigarettes I might not have the PD today. Plus
>> smoking was more fun.
>>
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Joao Paulo responded:
>You mentioned that your symptoms are still mild and that your only PD
>prescription were Eldepryl before you started ALC....so I wonder if you
>were taking levodopa (Sinemet and similars) instead of ALC you would'nt
>been feeling the same.Besides that,who knows the side effects of ALC ?
>>
Joao Paulo:
You are right about not knowing the side effects of Acetyl-L-Carnitine
(except what I've read informally). However, I do know the side effects (at
least for me) of Sinemet and Permax. I never want to go through either of
those again as long as I can avoid it. My condition has steadily improved
since my diagnosis by taking myself off of the medications suggested by my
Neuros. I stuck with Eldepryl because of its potential neuroprotective
effect. Meanwhile, I am OD'ing on antioxidants (Vit E/Succinate, Lipoic
Acid, Pycnogenol etc) in the likely futile hopes that they too will delay
the progression. I'm not sure what the side effects of these things are,
but I know they are far less severe than the stuff prescribed to me.
Ron Reiner (48 + 1.5ys)
