Joe Bruman wrote: >Judith, your recent posting should be a serious warning to users >of amantadine (Symmetrel) that if they ever want to quit, they >must taper off slowly and carefully. It bothers me that this >might be news to them, because it's been in the good old PDR, >all along. Joe, As you know, I'm well aware of this information. What surprised me was that I found that report which was dated 1996 in my own files. (I'm into serious file clean-up these days). We can't over-emphasize the importance of reading everything we can about the medications we must take. The more we know the less likely we are to make mistakes with them. Judith -- Judith Richards, London, Ontario, Canada [log in to unmask] ^^^^ \ / \ | / Today’s Research \\ | // ...Tomorrow’s Cure \ | / \|/ `````