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David Barthuli wrote: > > Marty described the symptoms very well... it's as though an unbearably heavy > weight has been placed on my right shoulder, that eventually succeeds in > pulling me over... frequently to the point of falling out of armless chairs. > It also feels as though the seat I'm sitting on is terribly uneven, i.e., > much lower on the right side than the left. I have "zero" strength in either > my torso or my right arm to restore myself to a normal upright posture. If > seated at the computer, I frequently find myself very painfully propped up > on my right forearm. As one can imagine, the symptoms are especially > disconcerting if they occur while I'm driving. > > My wretched body is resplendent with numerous Sinemet induced dystonias David's and Marty's latest posts shed some new light on this painful problem. I often wondered why Marty couldn't seem to just use an arm to prevent falling to one side when seated, and David explained that. As for Sinemet either causing or relieving that special type of dystonia, it might be worthwhile to run a formal controlled trial, if one tolerable to the subjects could be devised. It occurs to me that the failure of dystonia to be mentioned in the Sinemet product description as an adverse reaction might be because it occurs too late in PD to have been seen in the initial trials of Sinemet. Cheers, Joe -- J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 3527 Cody Road Sherman Oaks, CA 91403-5013