Teresa Seiler wrote: >My husband has had Parkinson's for 9 years...No matter what we did and we did alot , he continued to get worse. Off medicine(Sinemet) , he had come to a place where he had no balance or dexterity, he couldn't walk... Why was your husband off Sinemet? >Someone on this list put an address on for natural dopamine and I jumped...Bottom line is that he is about 40% better after 5 months...He was on a very conservative dose of Sinemet 2 (25/100) per day. Perhaps I'm reading this incorrectly, but after 9 years why was he on such a low dose? As far as I know, the initial dosage for a 'newly' diagnosed PWP starting levodopa therapy is three 25/100 pills a day. -- Judith Richards, London, Ontario, Canada <[log in to unmask]> ^^^ \ / \ | / Today’s Research \\ | // ...Tomorrow’s Cure \ | / \|/ ```````