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Maryse Schild wrote: > Marie and Ida: > The reason I asked is that my husband is now no 9mg Requip (nothing > else). When he increases the dose, it seems his tremor gets worse at > night and sometimes during the day also. Difficult to tell if it is due > to too much med or what because he had that sort of occurence before > taking Requip. He has no dyskinesia but he does not take L-dopa and > hesitates before introducing yet more drug-problem. > I agree, never give up Constantly aware of my own symptoms as they vary from hour to hour (or minute to minute), I wonder if the hand and foot tremor that appears a few minutes after the scheduled dose of Sinemet could be a form of peak-dose dyskinesia, and whether it could be associated with agonists such as Requip as well. At this point, it's noticeable but not very troublesome, and subsides within a half hour or so. Might not occur if I substitute Sinemet CR for the regular Sinemet, to damp out the response. Cheers, Joe -- J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 3527 Cody Road Sherman Oaks, CA 91403-5013