Thank you all for the thoughtful responses. Rose, I suspect that my neuro is thinking that the rapid speech correlates with me potentially being hypomanic; therefore, I get to spend three hours with a psychiatrist next week. I will tell him exactly what my mom has said of my speech for over twenty years "Laura, you're talking faster than a wet duck's *ss" I suspect for me it is medication with an overlay of anxiety induced fast jive talkin. Imagine if we were all made characters in Orwell's 1984, we could do doublespeak at hyperspeed- now that would be something to behold.

I am most aware of the speech velocity when I know I have frontloaded a little too much levodopa. I am sure most people simply think I am an addict of something and jonesin' which I guess given that I supplicate at the altar of Sinemet this is most likely true at some level.

Sharilyn- thank you for the kind words. Rose- thanks for having my back, as usual...I meant LSVT (not LBT, all I could think of was "Big"). I will look into it.

Laura