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hi judith At 00:57 99/01/11 -0500, you wrote, in part: >...Wednesday we were able to convince the MDS that Requip >was causing problems, so as of Friday, it had been eliminated... >However, he then decided to increase amantadine from >200mg to 300mg a day. This on top of 1600mg of levodopa... >MDS talked about changing the timing of the Sinemet from >100mg every hour to 100mg every two hours next week... so many drug changes in so little time... yikes >our friend, who said he was feeling a little >better and his wife said he is weak but able to move around >slowly on his own most of the time. He still can't swallow >and his speech is somewhat slurred. However, this is a big >improvement from two weeks ago when he was almost completely >frozen most of the time. this is great! why not just slow down on the aggressive treatment and let the poor man's brain adjust to the brain chemical equivalent of a whirlwind-european-ten-cities-in-eight-days-tour: "if this is thursday, we must be in belgium" especially now that he seems to be improving! if i were in your friends' slippers i would want to stabilize the meds right now and let my brain [and my body] take a breather >It does appear that the Requip was not agreeing with our >friend, but I also think he was taken off Tasmar too quickly.... exactly >The latest word on meds change is that the MDS is talking about adding >Permax on Tuesday, but there was no mention of decreasing the Sinemet. >I'm concerned about this... yikes more changes and more meds added to the chemical soup recipe it just all seems so 'hyper-speed' somehow a get-fixed-quick approach? wham bam out the door, sam? is he well enough to go home yet? is there any hope of another opinion or two? not much joy, but them's my two cents janet janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada <http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm> [log in to unmask]