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Old 10-20-2009, 06:37 PM
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Thanks. A drawback to my current "kitchen sink" approach has been some dyskinesia, especially in bright sunlight. So today I took approximately one teaspoon just before going out. Had some DK at first but had faded pretty much completely within 30 min. I'm not going to add dex on top of everything else until I sort things out a little, but given what a bas*ard DK can be someone might want to try it, particularly to see just how low a dose can be.

Robert, I had been wanting to ask- why the importance of taking the low dose dex at bedtime?

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Originally Posted by RLSmi View Post
Rick, this is a pretty old study, and I have not tried to look up the entire article yet. My guess is that the dosages were well in excess of that of the DM i am taking (approx. 4 mg/ day (night).
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