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I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my inquiries about Amantadine. I have had Parkinson's Disease for seven years now and it has become very severe the last two years. I have tried all the medications that is on the market and nothing works. I am now just on Sinemet CR 200x50 and Sinemet 100x25, one fives times a day. And I have just started taking the Amantadine, taking it 3 times a day. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't seem to work. I have severe dystonia. My feet, head, and neck twist to the left. My whole body freezes and I have severe cramps. I have severe neck and back pain also. I'm on morphine and tylenol #3 and Ativan too. I don't know what to do anymore. My doctors tell me that Palladotomy is not suitable for me because it only helps people with their tremors. -----Original Message----- From: Hilary Blue <[log in to unmask]> To: Kim Lee <[log in to unmask]> Date: July 4, 1999 1:47 AM Subject: Re: Amantadine meds >Hi >If you check the archives you will see that i have written quite alot about >amantadine because i regard it as a miracle drug. But it does have side >effects. >Some peop;e call it the serendipidy drug - because its discovery was quite >fortuitous. Some time back in the 50s or the 60s, in a n old-aged home in >Dngland, there was a flu epidemic.Amantadinie ws then the drug of choice to >treat flu. Imagine the doctor's surprise when he discovered that those of his >fapients with pd not only were cured of thhe flu, but their PD symmptoms had >considerably lessened. >btw, amantadine is also known as symmetrol. I w as given that when i was first >diagnosed 17 years ago. It didnt w ork.And i was pt on sinemet, which did. T >hen a couplr of yea rs lat er I cazme to the sta tes, and the neurologist put >me on parlodel and amantadine. At the same time. So now i cannot tell you for >sure which medicti on ha d which side effect. My legs swelled up enormously, >i deveooped Reynauds ty pe symptoms particularly my extreities woould lose >all feeling in the cold, and turn bright red. And i develooped a networking of >veins over my legs. I changed doctors and the new neurologist took me of >amantadikne and parlodel and gaver me eldepryl - just out the market- >and all the side effects disappeared. And over the ensuing yea rs, i had >various antagonist - now mir apex - to add to the sinemet. >About a year ago, my dyskinesia had becime so bad that my doctor had told me >that i was at the end of the road wit meedic a tion, and that she felt >surgery was the only route ro follow. We got as far as planning the tr ip to >New York - and then i saw something about amantadine on the net - someone had >start ed using it agoin, and it relieved his dyskinesia. I asked my doctor if >i cold give it t ty. and here iam, > >> Kim Lee wrote: >> >> I've just started on new medication. Its name is amantadine. I am >> writing to inquire if anybody has taken this medication before and >> what kind of side effects you have experienced as a result of taking >> this medication. Also, I would like any information about the drug >> anyone can give. >> >> Kim Lee >> [log in to unmask] >