Hi Bryn,

Everyone is different. For me, the Sinemet is best for my stiffness and the Requip is better for my tremors. I take both, 15 mg of ropinirole and five tablets of carbidopa-levodopa, and Comtan and Cymbalta and Amantadine, and a multivitamin and extra folate, but I have always found that the dopamine agonist covers the tremors and the levodopa covers the stiffness. I am young-onset and stiffness-dominant.

My docs, who are among the best in the field, tell me that tremor is the most intractable symptom and the most difficult to treat, as everyone's is different. Does your nurse have PD? She's sure never felt my tremor! It will break through when I'm off sometimes, or during scary scenes in movies, like in the battle scene in Lord of the Rings when Minas Tirith was under siege, but that's, as they say, another story.

With good cheer (I vented earlier today),
Jaye