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Antw: Re: Diphasic Dsykinesia


Dear Brian,

Something in this discussion I don't understand. Why is it, Brian, that you so
strongly resist the idea that our nervous systems don't all react the same way.
Your model is usefull for you and many others, but it can not explain
everything about med's and parkinson. The med's scheme I now use gives one
unescapable, but foreseeable period of dyskinesia that starts about 4 hours
after I have taken my last sinemet CR of the day. It lasts about 1 hour. Trying
to explain this, one needs a model in which a too low dose of sinemet activates
certain structures, which activation is overruled by another system, which uses
a higher dose. This however is pure hypothetical, the effects themselves are
not and can not be dismissed because we can't explain them.
I want to mention yet another phenomenon. From the start of my PD I suffered
from cramps in my right feet every morning after getting up (I use no med's at
all at night). I was amazed about that because in the beginning my parkinson
has been exclusively on my left side. Now that I use my new med's scheme this
symptom has nearly disappeared. This is completely unexplainable for me, but
yet it's true.
Ida Kamphuis, 53/12+
Holland


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