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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,772
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,772
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White rat preliminary report on light therapy
Has anyone tried light therapy? This is just my fourth experiment with it, but I swear to goodness that it seems to work! I stumbled to bed about 10:30 PM with my usual freezing coming on. Woke about 11:30 to hit the john and thought I would struggle to the kitchen for a cracker or two. As I expected, it was doable but still a pain. I knew it would be at least three or four o'clock before it started to shift so I figured I would eat and flee back to my wonderfully horizontal bed. But while I was eating I thought what the heck and turned on the light that I had been experimenting with for the last few days.
It is now 1:00 AMand I have been fully "ON" for 45 minutes! The previous and admittedly sloppy trials had shown enough benefit that I didn't quite write it off as imagination. But this one is the most impressive yet.
I'm using a $20 wonder from Office Depot with a full spectrum type bulb (T4 12W 6400K) full in the face from about six feet away. Stay tuned.
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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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