Thread: Condition improves during night
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Old 12-03-2013, 02:51 PM
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A lot starts to happen here around 2 AM or so and keeps on until about 5 AM. Cortisol in particular s in play as daylight approaches.


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Originally Posted by Bob Dawson View Post
(1) I avoid the cough syrup/Nytall because I take seligilene, and somebody here said seligilene does not go well with Dextro
(2) Does anybody believe in taking one last sinemet pill at bedtime, or
(3) wake up halfway through the night to take a sinemet pill (carbo- levo) then go back to sleep
(4) why so little sinemet needed at night? Just inactivity?
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Born in 1953, 1st symptoms and misdiagnosed as essential tremor in 1992. Dx with PD in 2000.
Currently (2011) taking 200/50 Sinemet CR 8 times a day + 10/100 Sinemet 3 times a day. Functional 90% of waking day but fragile. Failure at exercise but still trying. Constantly experimenting. Beta blocker and ACE inhibitor at present. Currently (01/2013) taking ldopa/carbadopa 200/50 CR six times a day + 10/100 form 3 times daily. Functional 90% of day. Update 04/2013: L/C 200/50 8x; Beta Blocker; ACE Inhib; Ginger; Turmeric; Creatine; Magnesium; Potassium. Doing well.
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