janet paterson wrote: > hi larry: > > you wrote: > >Does anyone ever take a drug holiday? > > no, not me > because if i miss out on my schedule of 1/2 tab sinemet every 90 minutes > i 'kick out', which means my muscles grind to a halt > i can't walk or write or wash dishes or chase the cats or... > > i believe that pd tends to manifest as two broad types > one with tremour, which i think you have > and the other with rigidity, which i have > i have virtually no tremour at all > except for extreme emotion Janet,taking from my own experience and from what I have read in this list I too support this picture. Larry,I stopped taking Seligeline (my case is tremor) and it made no difference at all.I get along well with levodopa only as a drug. Regards, +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + | [log in to unmask] | +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+