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hi all At 23:09 1999/07/18 -0500, ed the hot-rodder wrote: > >7-18-1999 >Got up 6:00 am >08:45 am -1 Sinemet CR 25/100 (Carb/l-Dopa) >10:45 am -1 Eldepryl 5 mg >11:05 am -1 Sinemet CR 25/100 (Carb/l-Dopa) >12:25 pm -1 Eldepryl 5 mg >03:00 pm -1 Sinemet CR 25/100 (Carb/l-Dopa) > >05:50 pm >* Going Down Hill Fast >* Legs Getting Stiff >* Getting Hard To Pick up Feet > >05:50 pm -1 Sinemet 25/100 > >07:00 pm >* 5:50 pm Sinemet Did Nothing >* On Crutches Cannot Pick Up Feet >* Cannot Go Forward >* Hard To Do But Can Go Backward >* Slurred Speech >* It Took 2 hr To Put things Up Outside Should Have Taken 15 minutes off the top it sounds to me like you are undermedicated your PD symptoms are 'showing through' the levodopa and you do not seem to have full 'coverage' of levodopa throughout your active hours prepare yourself for the jaNET INTERrogation: how long have you had pd? how long have you been on sinemet cr? [is the 5:50 pm med regular sinemet or sinemet cr?] how was your medication schedule established? how does it fit in with your meals? [the reason the 5:50 sinemet did 'nothing'?] what are your pd symptoms like at other times of the day? i.e. when i presume your meds are 'working' have you tried a daily analysis like brian collins'? [available at the wwweb archive site - see my website under pienet/words] pd med management can make us or break us we have to learn to listen to our bodies [no one else can!!!] and observe our bodies' reactions to our meds in other words collect all the evidence [good, bad, indifferent] in an objective manner and use that evidence to develop a responsive med regimen [with our medicos, need i add] as the late great alan bonander said, the stresses of being over-medicated [dyskinesia] or under-medicated [bradykinesia] are to be avoided if at all possible searching and adjusting and fine-tuning ourselves into the middle road is the goal imagine your body as a chevy sedan becoming more and more finely wrought and maserati-like treat it with the same finesse it doesn't deserve any less janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>