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Will. I have some experience's much like your except on a smaller scale. My tremor started 3 1/2 years ago. After about 2 years I tried amantadine.(for 3 months) it did nothing good or bad for me. Then after stopping it (two 100 mg caps per day) I tried Requip, starting dosage as mfg recomends, after 5 weeks I felt nothing good or bad so I stopped it cold turkey. In both cased on a visit to the doctor my tremor got real bad, my hand was shaking and my foot was jumping off the floor. But this was a stress reaction to my seeing the Dr. Since then, I am taking no meds except Benadryl at night which helps me sleep. This was dixcussed on the list a few days ago, about how the loss of dopamine upsets the balane of chem's in your brain, and an anticlolnergic (spelling?) helps balance out the chem's by reducing the chemical a.............. (cant spell that either). As you say, the tremor gets very calm for hours or days at a time, then gets somewhat bad for hours or days at a time. And if I keep busy and don't take time to think about it, I don't even know that I have it. I don't know how the severity of my tremor compares with other PWP'ss, but it is bad enough sometimes that, for instance when I was sitting in a restrauant with a friend who did not know I had PD, he though we were having an earthquake, because my left arm was resting on the table and the whole table was shaking. I can make the tremor stop or be reduced by 80% by taking a rest on the floor and listining to music and just telling it to calm down, thinking plesant lthoughts, like you were telling lyourself to go to sleep. I think I am using bio-feedback. I really can "will" it to calm down. Or, as you say, a really good exercise session followed by a rest on the floor works wonders. I am wondering if I really do have PD or just a tremor. Two doctors have said it was PD. Lanier Maddux 63, 3 1/2, 2 1/2 Chattanooga Tenn.