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Compazine??? NOOOOO!!! For Parkies, that drug's a MAJOR "no-no!" It actually can make one's PD symptoms WORSE! Compazine is right up there near the top of the NPD/APDA lists of "don't touch 'em drugs!" Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Jeannie Leroux <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 11:53 PM Subject: Re: Help Sinemet Balance >In a message dated 1/7/99 6:01:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, >[log in to unmask] writes: > ><< My question is, Does anyone have any ideas of how I could possibly keep the >Sineme > > t down? Or have any of you parkys had a similar experience? >> > >When I was going through chemotherapy for breast cancer ten years ago, I got >an anti nausea medicine called Compazine in a suppository form so that I could >get my pills in to do the work. Ask you doctor if there is anything like that >available now. > >My husband is the PWP. He does not use the computer so I write and read for >him. I find this list very interesting. We grow and develop show dahlias, so >Gordie is kept busy even though he had to slow the dahlia business down. The >mail order of tubers got to be too much. With my heart rhythm problem and my >diabetes, I could not help as much as I used to. Gordie also had cancer a >year before me for Lymphoma and had high dose chemotherapy. My question is if >anyone with Parkinson's has had or knows someone who has had chemotherapy >before the Parkinson's. I have heard of drug induced Parkinson's but wonder >if anyone has any ideas about this. > >Jeannie WA for Gordie (62/dx 60) >