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In a message dated 2/6/99 4:32:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << Will A. Kuipers wrote: > > Marty Polonski and Will Johnnston seem to agree with Joe Bruman's theory and > advice to William A. Parrette that exercise will "use up" available dopamine > and that it would not be harmful to take a little additional dopamine to > offset the loss. > I beg to differ. > In my experience, not only exercise will cause an increase of tremor, but > any kind of stress, or excitement, like getting up in a crowd and speaking, > will do that. >> Like Joe B., all that I can do is relate my experience, recognizing that it may be different for other PWP--that's why they call what most of us have Idiopathic Parkinson's. In my case, exercise does not cause an increase in intensity of my PD symptoms but it causes me to use up my meds faster and for the symptoms--stiffness, slowness, etc.-- to return sooner than usual. I agree that the same thing can happen when I expience stress, and sometimes this seems less reversible by the "timing" method which I discussed earlier, or to Joe B.'s "accelerated" meds. In fact, what seems to happen to me sometime when I experience significant stress is that the absorption of domamine stops abruptly and resumes later when I calm down. Good luck.