Re: Early Morning Musings

[Digest Bernard Klainberg <bernardo.jfk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

claudia, surely you must be joking, about the list of medicines you are

supposedly taking.......are you that bad off or just stiffness, lousy
writing...for which you are better off taking the least..............oh
wellllllllllll





> Amantadine - 100 mg 3 X day
> Parlodel - 5 mg 3 X  day
> Hydergine - 3 mg 3 X day
> Paxil - 20 mg 2 X day
> Zoloft - 50 mg at night
> neurotonin - 4 capsules day
> Klonipin - 1 mg at bedtime
> plus over the counter meds he prescribed:
> Evening Primrose Oil - 3 capsules a day
> Choline - 2 capsules a da7
> B complex vitamin at bedtime
> Medicines I was already taking prior to the dx:
> Premaring - 0.625 1 a day
> Dyazide - 1 capsule daily
> Levoxyl - .50 tablet 1 a day
> Vicodin - 500 mg on an as needed basis
>
>
> I don't think I left anything out! > All my best,
>
> Claudia Goldberg
> goldberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> John Morey wrote:
>
> > At 05:52 AM 2/2/98 -0800, Claudia wrote:
> >
> > >This seems to be going so fast--I was only diagnosed 5 mo. ago!
> >
> > Claudia, how were you diagnosed?  Did you have an MRI?  See a
specialist in
> > movement disorder?  The diagnoses of PD is incorrect about 26% of the
time.
> >  PD has many mimics.
> >
> > >Maybe this is just part of the depression that comes with PD and I'm
> > >taking so much medicine that that could be contributing to it too
> >
> > What are your meds?  What are you taking for depression and how much?
> > There are many people on this list who are very knowledgeable about PD
> > meds.  They may be able to share some of their experiences.
> >
Peace, John