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Requip has been a blessing to me. I haven't had any of the problems everyone else has had. For the two years after I wasn diagnosed, our HMO neuro gave me a very low dose of amantadine, and told me that I would never be the same as I was; he never answered my question "But, can I be better?," he just said "You'll never be the same." Our insurance coverage changed and I now see a conservative-treating neuro who has let me stay on amantadine (my security blanket) and started me on .25 mg of Requip 3 X daily for 1 month. I then went to .5 mg 3 X daily, and a few days at that dose found me sitting in the bathroom and crying my eyes out because I could brush my teeth again. (I hadn't been able to do that in at least 4+ years.) A month later I was increased to .75 mg 3 X daily and have been on that for 3 months and I expect him to raise it to 1mg . 3 X daily when I go in on Thursday, since he said he would after I'd been on .75 3 X daily.mg for 3 months. -----Original Message----- From: Clare Wilson <[log in to unmask]> Claire wrote: Sir James: we are all scared to some degree. Continual input seems to wear off the sharp edge of fear as time goes by. I was diagnosed 1/98, and feel much less afraid than at the beginning. One adapts, believe it or not. As to requip, I finally would not change my lifestyle to "sleep off" every dose and my MDS/Neuro agreed, so I phased out of Requip, and gradually started on Sinemet 25/l00 CR.