Re: Switching from Mirapex to Permax.

[Joao Paulo Carvalho <joaocarv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul I will try to answer some of yours questions .
IMHO whenever doctors prescribe many different drugs to the same disease it is
because they do not know , or have , the right drug ....   :-)
But I agree with your neuro that up to now the best of them is still levodopa
(Sinemet) .

Cheers,

Paul Lauer wrote:

> It seems from the list letters I read that there is no real consensus about
> which meds to take. Some start on Sinemet, some on Mirapex, Some on Permax,
> some on requip, all with and without Selegiline. Then the game of switching
> from one to the other begins along with the associated concerns about the
> consequences about switching too early/too late or titrating off or switching
> cold and I don't know how many other drugs and permutations are involved
> because I'm too new. Is there no school solution? Is it that the neuros are
> not privy to it whatever it is? Or is it that people's reactions to the
> various drugs are so variable that no global solution has surfaced or been
> accepted into the literature. My Neuro started me on Sinemet/Selegiline and
> when I asked him why not any of the others, he said that Sinemet was best and
> he had stopped prescribing any of the others.
>
> Paul H. Lauer   (PS Carole - I'm in Norwalk and we were pretty lucky with the
> storm)

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