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> Like you, Lee, I would get along fine with my meds if I didn't have to (and > like to)eat! I'm aware that even a small amount of protein can turn me off, > but most of the time it seems that any food at all will find me immovable > until another dose kicks in. When you take a 25/100 Sinemet every two > hours,there is no good time to eat! I guess your method of fasting by one meal > a day is probably the best way. > > Anyone else have a better one? > > Ruth Clark > Indeed, two hours is not enough time, but you should be able to eat fairly well. I am a CG for Barbara who's on Sinemet 25/100 ([S] for brevity) every 2.5-3 hours, and we allow more time after a meal tha before a meal to take the dose. We have recently moved into a senior residence with dinner provided. The evening meal for instance, she takes [S] at about 5, and start with a salad at about 5:10 and by the time the entree is served it is perhaps 35 min. after swallowing the [S], and dessert will usually include ice cream that she normally orders. Her meal is completed within 1.5 hr. after taking [S], but dinner normally takes a longer time at a dining hall facility. For breakfast, she will occasionally make French toasts, and for lunch she's been having a ham and cheese sandwich. She will then have about 1.5 hr. to digest and clear the path for the next [SD]. Addicted as she is to ice cream, she often takes a bowl in the evening which may be closer to the [S cr], but this [S] takes longer to get into the system. With the three meals a day, she also takes Permax. But, as the neuro says, if she does NOT adhere to the schedule, she pays the price and does occasionally walk around like a Zombie. It does take discipline on your part, with assistance or push or nagging from the CG, but you have to heed the word from your Movement Disorder Specialist, hopefully your neuro. Michel Margosis 'Carpe Diem'