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Me too! Add me to the list of being better in the mornings SINCE MY SURGERY. I'm so much better in the morning I can write the checks, pay the bills I start down hill about the time Dr. Laura comes on. 12 noon. By 6 pm Take me out of the oven because I'm done for the day. In fact,in the evenings, my voice is so slurred especially over the phone you would swear I was drunk. Not a pleasant feeling so I usually just go to bed. jjjane >Like Ida, upon awakening, I can usually go for about two hours without any >drugs - IF I don't start doing things 'round the house. Remaining calm and >relaxed is MY personal key to not initially needing them stinkin' drugs the >minute I get up. > >I've noticed, again, like Ida, that IF I should happen to take my first meds >of the day relatively soon after awakening, I don't get the full med-benefit >that I get with the delayed start-time. In fact, my entire drug schedule for >that day is thrown off, and I have to kinda feel my way along throughout the >day when it comes to taking any subsequent drug doses. I'm pretty savvy >about my own PD, so that's not impossible, but it's much easier to be on my >usual regular time schedule. >By the way.... I did NOT have that 2 hour "grace-time" upon arising prior to >my Oct., 1994 pallidotomy. It was just one of the beneficial results of that >blessed surgery.... > >Barb Mallut >[log in to unmask] > > > > > > > > > >---------- >From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Ida & Andre Kamphuis >Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 12:37 PM >To: Multiple recipients of list PARKI 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-benfit. 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 sinemetCR 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 > >-------------------------------------------------------------- >Vriendelijke Groeten / Kind regards, > >Ida Kamphuis mailto: [log in to unmask] http://www.parkinsonalliance.net/medical/palross/palross.htm