Re: Poor Appetite

[Bill Lawless <wlawless3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Emily,
I don't know all the symptoms of PD, but I have no problem with appetite. I 
stay very busy and physically active into my 5th year of treatment at 73.  I 
infer from your message that your mother lives alone. Single elderly often 
don't eat well because it's not fun to cook and clean up for only yourself.  
They have to establish a different meal and social pattern to provide an 
incentive to get the proper nutrition.

As to the medication, take to medicine only a few minutes prior to the
meal. If you take it (sinemet or other stuff) on an empty stomach it causes a 
slight nausea that might be enough to reduce the incentive to fix a decent meal.
Bill Lawless
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  From: Blank, Emily Celia
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  Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:21 AM
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  >I think she's on the standard medication, levadopa and sinemet(?).  My main
  >concern is that her appetite is very poor which is a relatively recent
  >development.  Her doctor thinks it might be the medication.

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