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>Bob & Joy Graham wrote: >> Attention all drug company representatives: >> Where and when can we get this new drug? Seems to me most neurologists and >> in fact anyone who operates on PWP (and who have to come off oral PD >> treatment) would be really hanging out for this injectable form of l-dopa. Joe replied: >I dunno, but a daily needle for me would be a last resort. A better >prospect is a skin patch (also daily) mentioned most recently in the >NPF magazine I wrote about. Neither one is ready for approval just yet. >Cheers, >Joe >-- >J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 >3527 Cody Road >Sherman Oaks, CA 91403-5013 To which I said: Joe, You missed my point! Certainly no one wants to have to have an injection everyday. I was thinking of those people who for some reason or another can't take oral medications - through having surgery, fasting, or as I have seen, in a horrible hallucinatory aggressive state and REFUSING meds to their own real detriment (like not being able to swallow due to rigidity +++ = malnutrition) Wouldn't it be nice to know that if you were facing surgery - you would not have to worry about a long period of being "off" because you could not take oral meds? Also the skin patch (so far) is a dopamine agonist - not levodopa - so whilst that too will be useful, it only goes so far. We must keep asking questions if we want the answers. Cheers Joy Graham