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Announcing the Cure for Parkinson’s Disease Looking for doctors to try a new treatment and send observations (Pardon the length of this document. You cannot describe a useful brain theory in a sound bite.) The Treatment (cont.) (Part 5) This comes in 7 parts. Do not apply any of this information without reading all 7 parts. Each part will have words at the end saying "continued in Parkinson’s Disease Cure’ Part [#]" for those whose servers might truncate these documents. Table of Contents Introduction................................................................ ...........................Part 1 Some of my theory helpful to understanding this treatment....................Part 2 Some of my theory helpful to understanding this treatment (cont.).........Part 3 The Treatment................................................................... ....................Part 4 The Treatment (cont.)..................................................................... .......Part 5 Why announce it this way on the Internet?.............................................Part 6 Why approach Parkinson’s disease first?................................................Part 7 The Treatment (cont.) Course You will probably know if the treatment is succeeding within a week. Most people so far have experienced their worst day of withdrawal on day four or five and then have rapidly improved after that until they felt they were cured by day seven or eight. But it was still important to lower the dosage and go through the withdrawal again. The subsequent withdrawals at lower dosages were much milder experiences. In each case the person felt no change during the first couple of days on medication except a positive change in sleeping patterns. Withdrawal kicks in about 2-3 days into treatment and is sometimes mild and sometimes horrendous. (To be safe at this time it probably should be an in-patient treatment although everyone so far has succeeded without a hospital stay.) All symptoms get worse and symptoms of other never-experienced disorders may appear. During the worst couple of days of withdrawal the patient may be suicidal and needs lots of emotional support. During the worst days the patient most likely will have no confidence in the treatment and may seek to stop treatment, but this is approached by preparing the person ahead of time for this likelihood so they might sense that their hate of the treatment is really something happening as it should, right on schedule. After getting off other medications and avoiding allergens for a day, start the first treatment when the patient is tired at bedtime. The medication might make the person immediately drowsy. Always encourage sleep. Try to let the patient get at least two hours of sleep without interruption. Keep it consistent taking the medication every hour during the waking hours. Encourage naps when desired. If the medication or the excitement of the situation keep the person from sleeping, then just keep giving the medication every hour until the patient is able to sleep. It is all right if the patient does not sleep at all during the first night or two. The low doses of medication are still providing the value of sleep to the parts of the brain that are not being stressed during the waking hours. Seek variety of experience and avoid extremes during the treatment. Find ways for the patient to use that brain during the waking hours. Love and attention are very good for the patient at this time. Stress is bad. Sex should be avoided as the mechanisms behind sex raise the stimulant levels too high. (Some patients may become very sexual at some stage of the treatment.) Different parts of the brain, different body parts, etc. will go through withdrawal at different times. States of mind will change greatly and these changes will last for a couple of hours in many cases before changing to something else. After the withdrawal has peaked at its worst (probably Day 4 or Day 5 but maybe as late as Day 8 or Day 9, all depending on the luck finding the right dosage) the mood and function will improve rapidly. The patient will feel wonderful most of the time but have an occasional bad spell. Eventually these bad spells are further and further apart until they disappear and the patient feels great all of the time. When the function is good for a day, wait another day and then cut the dosage in half, starting in the morning. (Cut the dosage a little sooner if the patient begins to have difficulty sleeping again.) After the withdrawal has peaked, the bad spells can be so subtle that many patients may not be even able to notice them. New ways of evaluating the process might need to be developed. Without any information and observation from the patient this treatment might work when giving 2mg/hour for eight days and then 1mg/hour for five days and then four days at .5mg/hour, four days at .25mg/hour (¼mg) and the last four days at .1mg/hour (one-tenth of a milligram). The next course of the treatment at half the dosage will run faster. The withdrawals could peak and disappear in half the number of days or they might take just as long as the first time. The dosage is then lowered and a couple of days later the person experiences another layer of withdrawal peaking milder this time and then the person is feeling almost too good a couple of days later when the dosage is lowered again. Keep cutting the dosages in half and repeating the experience until stopping after a last dose of about .1mg (one-tenth of a milligram) of Ritalin. Some people might stop after a slightly higher dosage if they find that they are so sensitive to the drug that any small amount begins to interrupt their sleep. After a succession of smaller withdrawals on smaller dosages the person is taken off medication when feeling good again after a withdrawal on the smallest dosage. (In some cases the person experiences another short withdrawal a couple of days after stopping medication altogether.) Keep sleeping as much as possible. What to expect from withdrawals We will eventually figure out how to make most of the withdrawal occur during sleep so that the experience is not so bad. Bad experience or not, getting to the other side from the illness is definitely worth it. As rigidity disappears, tremor will be magnified and then eventually disappear too. A withdrawal can be a medical crisis. It can be mild or very severe. (Such is the reason that the medication that could cure would be discarded as harmful using the current methods of developing new drugs.) Occasionally there will be casualties of this process. A person might stop the process at the height of withdrawal and get stuck in withdrawal. Without proper supervision and support a patient might attempt suicide if the withdrawal causes significant depression. (To be safe this should be an in-patient procedure although some will succeed in putting themselves through this process without help.) There will be periods of agitation or anxiety or hyperactivity or depression or psychosis as in any other withdrawal. The withdrawal symptoms that can be expected are any symptoms that might occur during a withdrawal from any substance. Some people will have very mild withdrawals. It all depends on how much of the withdrawal is able to happen during the hours of sleep. It can’t all happen during one day or one night. Some times are going to be worse than others and the bulk of the withdrawal symptoms on a particular dosage will probably occur during one bad day (probably day 4 or day 5 and maybe as late as day 8 or 9) and then subside quickly after that. Withdrawal symptoms at the lower dosages will be milder. There have been many good side-effects of this treatment: Senses have improved, most notably improvement in the senses of smell and touch. It appears that all have shown improvement in sexual function. Muscles relax enough in the face that people look younger and skin condition improves a lot. Two people have noticed that they desire healthier food than before. (They lose their ability to tolerate caffeine, and alcohol is not as attractive.) Other somatic problems disappear as well. Post-treatment It might be better to take a small (.1mg) (one-tenth of a milligram) dosage of methylphenidate to sleep during the first month after the treatment. It might be better not to do so. These things will have to be studied. Sleep as much as possible every night. You will probably be very tired during the first weeks after treatment. The brain is working very hard developing new connections that were not very active before the treatment. Talk therapies will need to be developed for the period of withdrawal and the first couple of months afterward. Repressed memories may return, the brain will need to be exercised, people will experience longing for their diseased selves with so much change in such a short time, etc. No drugs or alcohol or cigarettes or caffeine (skip the chocolate) or allergens during the treatment or for at least a month after the treatment. (You want to be cured, don’t you?!?) Some symptoms may return at the end of the day when tired but with enough sleep this should stop happening and improvement will be permanent. Many symptoms might return during pre-menstrual periods in the first month or two following treatment. Once again it is important to get rest as much as possible. In any case it is unlikely that all of the symptoms will return to the same condition as before starting the treatment. Be good to yourself. Pleasure is the body’s road map to health. Relapse Be aware that the theory predicts some relapse eventually. Remember that these problems are caused by the same process behind aging. This treatment is changing the chemical trends in the brain. The sensitivities that are affected are created by chemical but they are also created by the number of connections and by atrophy and growth. These are the processes behind learning and memory. The immediate chemical changes are the immediate memory. Short term memory is created by accumulating chemical changes within the cell or by changes in the number of various receptors in the synapse. Long-term memory involves changes in the number of connections, the number of nerve fibers, changing numbers of receptors and by atrophy and growth. A chemical change in the brain might cure a problem symptomatically but it takes longer to change the architecture in the brain through growth and atrophy and internal cellular processes. The chemical process in this treatment reduces the range of sensitivities so that entire areas of the brain are no longer inhibited. The processes in the brain that create long-term memory also have a memory of the state of illness. Regions of the brain that were stressed and inhibited for a long time have learned this state through growth and atrophy and might tend to go back to that state chemically after a period of time. This means that it is particularly important to avoid stress in the first month or two following the treatment so the brain has a chance to "learn" the new state of being. (Growth or atrophy in various parts of the brain witnessed in various disorders are not the cause of the problem in almost all cases but a result of an aberration of the learning process changing the shape of the brain over time because of trends in chemical inhibition in the brain.) The only person to experience a return of some symptoms so far has been a woman experiencing high levels of stress in her life during and immediately following the treatment. (She was negotiating a divorce and experiencing her first months of teaching full-time in a very difficult inner-city environment.) Some will be cured for good after the first course of the treatment. Others may require several courses of treatment spaced several months apart. Each successive treatment will produce a milder experience of withdrawal from the previous treatment (unless a lot of time has elapsed). It will be unlikely that all symptoms return at any time. Some symptoms will always be cured. Each successive treatment will produce a recovery that lasts a longer time than the previous recovery. Some people may have difficulty responding to this treatment. We are dealing with illnesses that can lead to death. Some of these sufferers are very close to the end. Summary Remove allergens. Inform patient about the withdrawal process. Stop all other medications, drugs, alcohol, tobacco and caffeine. 2mg/hour of methylphenidate around the clock. (Lower to 1mg/hour if patient is not sleeping better by 3rd night.) (Interrupt sleep as little as possible to give medication - quietly every 2½-3 hours.) Cut medication by 50% a couple of days after withdrawal symptoms resolve. (About Day 8.) Keep cutting the medication by 50% each time withdrawal has subsided for a couple of days. (Lower medication by 50% if it begins to hinder sleep again.) Stop after lowest dosage about .1mg (one-tenth milligram). Sleep and rest. Pay My Bill All who are helped by this treatment will be required to pay my fee later. I think I’ve earned it if I’m right. I will send the bill later. Don’t worry. Paying this bill will be pleasurable and voluntary and no payment is required until a significant period of improvement has been experienced. [CONTINUED in ‘ Parkinson’s Disease Cure’ Part 6]