Rainbow,

Just to clarify a couple of things:
- if the time to "on" on the first dose is slow, I suggest replacing a IR with a CR, not as you write "to add an IR Sinemet to the CR at the beginning of the day". The logic being that overnight levodopa levels usually fall to a minimum. For me, this is not the case: I appear to still have some natural dopamine production going on, so I wake up feeling good and there is little delay getting to the first "on".
- initially, until you have dose 1 worked out, keep dose 2 and the following ones as they are now.

John