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Rebecca Hudson wrote: > My name is Valerie Dillon I am a friend and part time caregiver for > Rebecca Hudson. She's in trouble. > She is experiencing a tremendous increase in diskinesia and dystonia. > It seems to start after she takes her medication 1/2 sinemet 10/100 and how many halves of 10/100 Sinemet does she take a day? what times? she may be taking too little carbidopa. the minimum is 75 mg. per day to be effective. > > 1 permax .25mg. It starts to burn in her lower right abdomen and then > prickng (neuropathy?) starts in her hands spreading through her arms and > elsewhere. She then experiences dry mouth and then her mouth starts to > burn. > Then severe tremors increasing in strength and duration. She is also > taking 2-3 75mg. of doxepin at night. > We have been having no luck with changing the configuration of doses. should not be changing without medical consulting!! > > She is scheduled to see her neurologist but needs help now. Any > information or suggestiona would be very much appreciated. > > Thank You, > Valerie Dillon -- Ron Vetter 1936, '84 PD dz [log in to unmask] http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~rfvetter