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About apomorphine. my mother (living in Italy) has taken apomorphine for a year and a half . She was prescribed apomorphine because she was not responding anymore to sinemet. She was using a "metering pump" or "insuline pump" which allowed to dose properly and continuosly the apomorphine.(The old system of injections every so much was already abandoned many years ago before the discovery of Dopa) It turned out that the dosage was very "delicate" (i.e. too much apomorphine meant strong dyskinesia) and after approx 1 year and half she was not responding anymore (i.e. dosage to get a "decent" response could not be found) She then stopped and is now on selegiline (I believe.... name is different in Italy and don't remeber exactly) and she is doing much better than the last months with apomorphine. In conclusion I think that apomorphine was good for her to reset the "dopa" dosage to which she was not responding properly... and now she is back to more recent (but traditional) medications. Marco Bozzo for Madin