Parkinson's Disease Support Group
Parkinson's disease is a movement disorder often characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor, a slowing of physical movement, and in extreme cases, a loss of physical movement. The primary symptoms of Parkinsons are due to excessive muscle contraction, normally caused by the insufficient formation and action of dopamine, which is produced in the dopaminergic neurons of the...
Five years ago my wife and I were driving on beautiful sunny day, windows open and music playing. Then suddenly I noticed my right hand wasnt taping to the music like my left. As a matter of fact my right hand wasnt moving at all even as I stared at it and tried to think it to move. That was the start of PD for me. Over the next five years a barrage of other symptoms kept pilling on. During that period many different medications were given in different dosages and combinations. Most of the time they seemed to calm down the symptoms for a few weeks to months, but never reversing them.
Well as a was listening to some music the other day I suddenly noticed some of the movement has come back in my hand, I can also now use my right hand to brush my teeth and shave again. Sometimes the left hand still needs to help out. These changes started after being on my new medication regiment for three weeks. I still have plenty of other PD symptoms and issues to deal with but to be honest this is the best thing that has happened to me in a long, long time.
meds
CARBIDOPA-LEVO SA (sinemet) 25/100 7 times a day
COMTAN 200m (entacapone) 6 times a day
CARBIDOPA-LEVODOPA (sinemet) 25/100 7 times a day
and the new kid on the block Requip 3 times a day
That's about 700 pills a month-
Well as a was listening to some music the other day I suddenly noticed some of the movement has come back in my hand, I can also now use my right hand to brush my teeth and shave again. Sometimes the left hand still needs to help out. These changes started after being on my new medication regiment for three weeks. I still have plenty of other PD symptoms and issues to deal with but to be honest this is the best thing that has happened to me in a long, long time.
meds
CARBIDOPA-LEVO SA (sinemet) 25/100 7 times a day
COMTAN 200m (entacapone) 6 times a day
CARBIDOPA-LEVODOPA (sinemet) 25/100 7 times a day
and the new kid on the block Requip 3 times a day
That's about 700 pills a month-
Skipping a dose creates a major setback for me. If I so much as run off schedule by an hour the tremors, rigidness and panic feeling come roaring back. I just hope that this current "cocktail" keeps my symptoms at bay for a while.
It seems to me that you must be taking pills every hour or two.
Why would you take two different kinds of Sinemet?
Your not kidding it is a lot of pills.
One Sinemet is fast acting the other is slow release.
I feel very sluggish, lots of upper gas, dizzy sometimes. But as stated miss one dose and all hell breaks loose.