Hello, We know that Sinemet has to get through the stomach to the small intestines to be absorbed. Here's a question. I just found this: MEDICAL OBSERVER MAGAZINE V4 #8:PART 5, Article "GASTROPARESIS: A MOTILITY DISORDER". Contains a statement made in 1995 attributed to Australian researcher Dr. Michael Horowitz, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide-Royal Adelaide Hospital in South Australia to the effect that levodopa delays gastric emptying. http://www.cph.upm.edu.ph/mobs/mobs_aug95_p5.html Is this correct? If so, then are we are all standing on our own bootstraps? Or, if correct, does it apply only to levodopa and not to Sinemet? Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ age 61/dx 1990