Re: Symptoms

[David Moreland <davelm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I guess I will have to get in on this subject,  I am 59, was diagnosed
in 1988. I now take two 50/100 in a glass Dr Pepper each morning at about
5:30 Then starting at
6 itake 1 50?200 Cr, I 200 mg Comtan and 1.5 mg Mirapex every four hours
whith final dose at 6 pm ad i gennerally tayb on fopt miost of the day. i
retires about a year and a half ago. i am on Oregon PERS and federsal
Disability With this combination I have justabout the amount i was making
when I was employed by the oregon Department of Revenue. Your routine
sounds similar to mine. I had a bilateral Pallidotomy in August of 1995.And
I think that is still helping me.

At 12:27 AM 6/26/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>George/Scott,
>
>It's none of my business, and I'm jumping into the middle of a thread,
>but I can't help commenting on the dosages I'm reading for Requip
>especially (for what it's worth).
>
>According to my Movement Disorder Specialist, and everything I've heard
>and read about Requip, 6mg of Requip is just about the very least you can
>take for a therapeutic effect.  Now I suppose that some people may have
>had a beneficial effect with 4 or 5, but 6-7mg/day is considered the
>start of a therapeutic dose for Requip.  You can go up to 24 mg/day,
>although that is the max.
>
>Incidentally, the dosing is very different from Mirapex, which, mg for
>mg, is much more potent.  I started with Mirapex, and found it harder to
>take than Requip, and found that after trying for months, I couldn't get
>past 1 1/2 mg/day--1/2, 3 times per day.  My doctor had me switch to 7mg
>of Requip after a short titration, and I found that, yes indeed, 7 mg was
>just about the equivalent of 1 1/2 mg of Mirapex.  The max for Mirapex
>is, I believe, around 6 mg.
>
>Also, most people take 25/100, rather than 50/200, although you are
>taking extended release.  Extended release doesn't work real well for a
>lot of people.  Have you tried regular Sinemet with Comtan?
>
>I hope you don't mind my little opinions and ideas.  Good luck to you
>both.
>
>Charlotte Mancuso
>
>On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:13:50 -0700 scott burnett <sburnett001@xxxxxxxxx>
>writes:
>> george,
>>         Your situation sounds similar to mine.  Same time schedule,
>> similar
>> problems but add on neck and back pain, fatigue and a feeling of
>> "not being
>> right" when I'm off.  I recently upped my dosage of requip to 6 mg a
>> day
>> and that helped some.  Stress really makes a difference  to me so
>> the issue
>> of continued work is of real concern.  I am changing to what I hope
>> is a
>> much less stressful position next school year so I evaluate that as
>> time
>> goes on.  I spent several weeks looking into the California State
>> Teachers
>> Retirement systems disability set up aand it looks pretty good.
>> Even
>> though I intend to keep working and adapting my schedule and
>> workload as
>> much as I'm allowed, it made me feel alot better to have the info at
>> hand.
>>    Someone from the list put it very well I thought when they wrote,
>> "I have
>> a cup of energy to use each day, and I have to decide where I want
>> to use
>> it; at work, with friends or with family."  That's not an exact
>> quote but
>> you get the point.  Somewhere down the road, all of us PWP's will
>> have to
>> make a personal choice.  When and where it will be is up to us.
>> Scott from California
>>
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Yours and His

David L.Moreland

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