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On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Brian Collins wrote: > > > > > Hello Sue, These can be rather scary days when you begin to see some of > the effects that can occur if you get the tablet dosages wrong. I'm sure > we can sort out something better though. > OK, I need help this morning. I'm sitting here with a bottle of Sinemet CR 25-100, and a bottle of Cogentin. The doctor isn't on call this weekend. His replacement said to go back to the origional dose until tomorrw when I can contact the doctor who doesn't know what he's doing! What do I do now. Mom is still very warm and has the dyskensia movements but no where near as pronounced as yesterday. Very possibly from the cogentin being lowered. She's used the Sinemet since Wed. evening. What do I do until I get another doctor? I have about 19 tabs. - no chance of the doctor giving me more if I don't follow his directions. Brian - the doctor is trying to lower the cogentin which was ordered at 10 times the desired dose by yet another doctor while my mother was in the hospital last July! Honest! I had her down to 2.5 mg per day, but couldn't get any lower. (It was ordered at 5.0 mg./ day in hospital and given for many days by them - Mom came home with all kinds of side effects never noticed by the staff!) Last Wed it was lowered to 1.0 mg / day. I don't know what is causing what! Please help - you know the meds and I don't. Thanks much Sue [log in to unmask]