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Ivan and others, Last Nov, after 7 days in the hospital and 9 more at home with home health doing vitals twice a day, I finally had the opportunity to go over my years worth of blood tests with the doctor. There was nothing wrong with me. NOTHING (except of course the PD) It seems that the requip has edema as a side effect and they had tried to medicate the side effect, with each med adding another side effect. By Dec 1 I stopped all medications. I went cold turkey off everything. I do not remember much of December and part of January. It was the last week in January when I began to come out of it. Now I take Sinemet CR when my symptoms ( either the stiffness or tremor) are so severe that I cannot move. Then I usually take one 25/100 crushed and about a half hour later one whole. This usually breaks up the symptoms. I find that the worst times are a result of stress such as the recent death in the family. Otherwise I am not on anything. The main reason I do not take the Sinemet all the time is that I am prone to dystonia and often dyskinesia going up and coming down. I try to avoid this as it seems this is as bad or worse than just shaking/being stiff. I remember someone telling me that even though you do exercise when you are at work or doing house cleaning, since it is part of your daily activity, it does not count as exercise to strength the body or lose weight. I think in the same way I am now used to my minor tremors as they are always with me. However, when I am stressed and the tremor is intense for hours, then I sweat and am exhausted. Marling McReynolds 50/diag 1995