<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>Apomorphine
Apomorphine has been always more used in Europe than in the US. That is
in part because the anti-emetic and anti nausia med. domperidone is an
accepted med. in Europe ( I am not sure if this holds for all European
countries.)
and is always prescribed together with apomorphine. Domperidone is not
admitted in the USA. Apomorphine is for most neuro's a last resort, which
can be used when nothing else is helpfull any more. It controls for
some patients effectively "wearing off" dyskinesia. I once did see a
woman with heavy dykinesia using it. The effect of an apomorphine
injection seemed me to be a miracle Within a few minutes the dyskinesia
had disapeared completely.
But the time this effect could keep was about 30 min. It was supposed
that after these 30minutes the sinemet would take over the job. My
impression was that it is more a rescue drug, than a drug that could
take over the task of sinemet. But as such it might be usefull. When
apomorphine is used as replacement of sinemet ,administered by a pump,
the results can be miraculous too, but mostly don't hold .
Regards
Ida </fontfamily>
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