they are supremelyOn Mon 30 Jun, Ida Kamphuis wrote: > Dear Brian, >=20 > Something in this discussion I don't understand. Why is it, Brian, that > you so strongly resist the idea that our nervous systems don't all react > the same way. Your model is usefull for you and many others, but it can=20 > not explain everything about med's and parkinson. The med's scheme I now=20 > use gives one unescapable, but foreseeable period of dyskinesia that starts > about 4 hours after I have taken my last sinemet CR of the day. It lasts=20 > about 1 hour. Trying to explain this, one needs a model in which a too low > dose of sinemet activates certain structures, which activation is overruled > by another system, which uses a higher dose. This however is pure=20 > hypothetical, the effects themselves are not and can not be dismissed=20 > because we can't explain them. I want to mention yet another phenomenon.=20 > From the start of my PD I suffered from cramps in my right feet every=20 > morning after getting up (I use no med's at all at night). I was amazed about > tha= t because in the beginning my parkinson has been exclusively on my left > side. Now that I use my new med's scheme this symptom has nearly disappeared. > Thi= s is completely unexplainable for me, but yet it's true. > Ida Kamphuis, 53/12+ > Holland >=20 >=20 Hello Ida, You are being a little hard on me, I think. Perhaps it was before you joined the list that I brought my program to the list, and invited people to give it a try. My stated objective was to find out how many PWPs could=20 benefit from the program, or was it just applicable to me? Unfortunately, getting the required data from people turned out to be slightly more difficult than getting blood out of a stone! You may recall that you did almost all =20 the hard work, and were ready to generate the numbers which I needed, when you just stopped - I don't know why. However, as time went by, I have managed to accumulate some data, some of it compatible with my program, and some not. However, I am continuing to learn, and I ALWAYS try any new information=20 against my program first. Even if the analysis does not work, the format of the plot is (for me)=A0a useful way to describe whaqt is happening because I can see so much more clearly when plotted in graphical forem - no doubt=20 due to my Engineering training) the whole point of the my last e-mail was to say that: A) I know how to produce on myself end-of-dose Dyskinesias - And I can=20 assure you that they are the real thing. B) I can alter my meds in such a way that I stop the end-of-dose dyskinesias=20 =20 C) I have no models or theories, I just want to know if anyone recogmises the sequence of events --=20 Brian Collins <[log in to unmask]