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Concerning the following Post to the LIST SERVE Marling, What time of day do you take your last medications. I am thinking of trying "the wait a couple of hours" after I am up. I am usually awake around 5 AM. and I don't go to sleep until 11:30 or 12:00. I have been taking the Sinemet and Parlodel as soon as my eyes are open, thinking it was necessary. Plan to have a serious discussion with my Neuro concerning medication when I see him on the 15th of August. I think he has decided since I don't have a tremor and I am not depressed that I don't need much if anything, but I have so much stiffness and also balance problems that I know I need something else. I am taking. 2 Sinemet 25/250 daily 3 Parlodel .5 mg. daily 1 Tasmar 100 mg. daily. He did mention he wanted to change the Parlodel to another agonist. I had been taking 3 snippets but he dropped one when he added the Tasmar. that was okay for awhile, but lately I find more off times than on times. Ellen 61/2 >Subject: Re: mornings >At 13:28 5-8-98 -0500, you wrote: >When I wake up in the morning I can go for an hour or more not needing any >medication. Tremors are my main problem but it seems strange to me that >after all night you wouldn't be in great need of something. Is anyone >experiencing this? > >Marianne Rome 6l /l51/2 >Yes I am experiencing this. In fact I can go on for two hours, if I don't >try to do things with much effort. I once read something about it and it >was called sleep-benefit. Starting the first Sinemet not before two hours >after I've gotten up, I benefit more from it than if I start it immediately >after I've gotten up. >The only symptom which sometimes shows up during this drug-free period is a >tremor, which is totally absent the rest of my day. The symptoms, which are >the most troublesome are a combination of dystonia and dyskinesia which starts >in the evening 3 or 4 hours after I took my last Sinemet and lasts about 1 >hour. >Ida Kamphuis Sinemet CR 100/25 1 and 1/2 each day >54/14 Sinemet gen. 100/25 1/2 each day > Tasmar 100 2 each day > eldepryl 2 each day > permax 0.05 7 and 1/2 each day > orphenadrine 50 5 each day >Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:54:41 -0700 >From: Marling McReynolds <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: mornings >Marianne, >Early morning is my best time. I do not begin meds until 7 AM, but I >am up at 4:30 or 5. That is when I am at my best. >don't forget how to laugh (and do it often) >Marling McReynolds 49/3