Jeff & Joan Heyser wrote: > > My wife (54/4) is taking a significant amount of medication an increasingly > more frequent intervals. Every 1 3/4 hours (one and three quarters hours) > she takes 1 Sinemet 25/100, 2 Sinemet CR 25/100 and 3/8 or 3/4 mg Mirapex. > Somewhat less often when she is sleeping. your wife is taking too much carbidopa. she should be using only 25/250 or 10/100 carbidopa/levodopa tablets. the CR version should not be used at all on such a frequent schedule. -- Ron Vetter 1936, '84 PD dz paradise is feeling good, not a place to go [log in to unmask] http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~rfvetter