At 10:12 2-8-99 -0400, Hilary Blue wrote: .does anybody know anything about the possible use of a nicotine patch ? Hilary I tried nicotine patches in december 1996. The first that i used had an amazing effect. My diskinesia disappeared and when I wrote something my old pre-morbid handwriting, that I lost for many years, reappeared. It was all too nice to be true. I had two very good days, than the results diminished and the fourth day I stopped using them, because I no longer profitted from them. I feared the symptoms would be back more strongly, but that did not happen. I thought however I had found a method to use from time to time when for some uusual reason it would be important not to have symptoms. But restarting with the patch after a few weeks of abstinence did not have any effect at all and also later trials did never give any results. Ida -------------------------------------------------------------- Vriendelijke Groeten / Kind regards, Ida Kamphuis mailto: [log in to unmask]