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Old 06-30-2007, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by BEMM View Post
Crhis,

I cut down Amantadine by half because my head began to buzz. My ears seemed to hear through a layer of wool, and the buzzing inside my head seemed to reverberate. AND I had visual disturbances - I saw pink and green lace patterns on the ceiling when I did my lying down stretches, and in the sink and bath tub. The patterns were very pretty, very symmetric, but after a while I decided that I'd be better off without seeing them.
I continued with the 100 mg for another year for the sake of my balance, but stopping now seems not to have made my balance much worse - a little maybe. Since I stopped I have had a couple of little falls - in situ, you could say. One moment I'm standing, next moment my left leg buckles and I'm down - on my left hip and left bum every time. I just list left.

I'm beginning to know what addiction feels like. I love those little yellow carb/lev pills....


birte
never had ANY problems with amantadine.I quit 2x 100mg/daily cold turkey without any problems either. (post DBS)

Birte;
I list to the right, we should be a "pair"!! LOL

Sinemet dependancy is not often spoken of, but it is a real problem for some. They get addicted to the "high" sinemet gives them. This is not a problem for the vast majority of PD'ers, and is usually overcome with a DBS.

Charlie
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