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hi joan At 15:53 1999/01/27 -0600, you wrote, in part: >...As a few of you might have known, I have been having a really >tough time lately. Several months ago, it bacame apparant that I >was no longer getting the benefits from mirapex that I had been >used to getting-my symptoms were taking a definite turn for the .worse & at my last appointment w/ my neuro, he uped my mirapex >intake to 4.0 mgs a day (pretty much maxed out!) and we discussed >my options. At this last visit with him on Jan 14th,we decided to >gradually reduce the mirapex and to gradually get aclimated to >requip. Of course, I wanted to have the changes done & over with >in a week so I came of the mirapex in 3 days (I know-graduale >is relative!) Now, I can honestly say that I must know what a junkie >feels like in detox-I'd bore you w/ grisly details but you get the >picture! On Friday, I was sobbing to my dr. to please put me back on the >mirapex-but, he said that I should give the requip a chance to work...& >also commented that I was not wonder-woman & that gradual is indeed a >relative term! Any how, I was determined to give it the old college >try-I told him that if I weren't back to normal in a week, I was going >back on the mirapex! On Sunday, I had upped my requip to .50 mgs 3x a >day & was able to attend Mass-but I was worn out for the rest of the >day. As of yesterday, when I first started this post, I could only type >with one finger, couldn't eat,couldn't get out of a chair or bed without >assistance-baasically, I was a mess! Finally, today, I upped my doseage >to .75mgx. 3x a day & I am happy to announce that I''m tryping with 10 >fingers & that for the first time in weeks-I AM GOING TO LIVE!... it's about time we heard from you i was about to send a posse now a little lecture especially in light of a recent tragedy fooling with our brain chemistry is not to be taken lightly those chemicals create our perceived world or destroy it low and slow is the rule i got from my very first neuro in re titration of meds in this era of microwaves and faxes and e-mail time seems to have been compressed but don't do that to your brain please rumour has it it takes our bodies one week to adjust to a one hour time change!!! i.o.w. jet-lag from an 8 hour return flight takes 16 weeks to fully adjust to and there are no meds no chemicals involved!!! got it? good 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]