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Originally Posted by lindylanka
B vitamins are getting my attention lately, though riboflavin has not been on my radar until now. B12 has been, along with B6. All of course vital for the nervous system. NWPF has dietary advice on B12 & folate for people taking l-dopa in the long term. Also found this
http://www.hbi.ucalgary.ca/news-stor...pamine-dilemma
which seems to suggest that supplementation with cobalamin (a form of B12) may be useful in a type of peripheral neuropathy that may be induced by long term levodopa usage.
Slightly off topic I know, but maybe connected?
Lindy |
As patients, we hate to hear it because l-dopa is our only life line.. and as doctors, it means the crumbling of the main pillar of the financial empire built arround PD treatment. Thank you Lyndy for the link. Pls allow me to quote the following from it:
“As far back as my residency, we were seeing about a 10% incidence of peripheral neuropathy along with Parkinson’s disease” says neurologist and HBI researcher Dr. Cory Toth, “but when I asked the specialists about it, they didn’t think it was attributable to the treatments we were using.”
"Toth wanted more definitive answers, so in collaboration with fellow HBI members Drs. Suchowersky and Zochodne, he conducted a longitudinal study of 58 Parkinson’s disease patients to test for links between Parkinson’s disease and peripheral neuropathy. The results were surprising. In their study, Dr. Toth and his team found over half of the Parkinson’s disease patients tested had peripheral neuropathy. And the severity of the peripheral neuropathy suffered went up with increased exposure to L-dopa as a treatment.
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