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Ron, let me have it straight : Ron Reiner wrote: > > 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. > >> > > > 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) Ron you say that you know the side effects of Sinemet and Permax.But how sure are you that the culprit was Sinemet ? Could'nt be the combination with Permax the reason for the side effects ? I tell you that because I was taking levedopa(Sinemet like) and Eldepryl and started to feel some funny side effects.By my own I suspended slowly the Eldepryl and the side effects desapeared after some time.I am no longer taking Eldepryl. Regards, -- +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + | [log in to unmask] | +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+