this is our gold standard drug - most of us take this at some point in the treatment of PD are given sinemet / generic - carbidopa levadopa
sinemet is referred to as a hypnotic...
so what does sinemet really do for PD?
the claim it produces more dopamine, one of the many neurotransmitters chemicals in the brain. ..and delays PD -
and it is no cure -


the only cure I have seen was Dr. Greg Gerhardt's GDNF -he had a film where the rhesus monkeys that had been given PD for study was
gdnf - a fluid that keeps brain cells alive in the brain...
the monkey with PD could not eat very well, the monkey loved marshmallows and some type of junk cereal, after the treatment of GDNF the monkey fed himself with speed and with two hands not just one at a sluggish speed.
the rehsus system is named after this monkey more on the blood of these monkeys

http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2794.html
And then there was blood
In a footnote to his only paper published in 1900, Landsteiner reported his perhaps most important discovery, the interagglutination occurring between serum and blood cells of different humans. He suggested that the phenomenon was not pathology, as was the prevalent thought at the time, but was a physiological phenomenon due to the unique nature of the individual's blood.

if your neurologist told that you had PD just with a sight test -and an mri - you really may not have PD at all
I have known many dxd wrong!
you need a PET test to rule out PD, an expensive rarely given test.

read all the side effects please

http://www.drugs.com/sfx/sinemet-side-effects.html

all the side effects of sinemet and mirapex - spell out PD symptoms very clearly...
what it was to help in the beggining - it causes at some point in your life on these drugs -if you have PD - I never have known if it was the placebo effect,
the placebo effect is high in PD patients...
I do not like drug studies involving placebo pills -sham surgery...out in out - lies to the volunteer patients, I think everyone on a study should get the real thing and see if some people do not respond well...

I will never be anymore of a guniea pig/ rhesus monkey than the drugs have already made me...
my first try on sinemet was bad -vomitting and low blood pressure...
so I refused it for5 years, until the neuro -told - I walked horrible like an old lady... hurt my feelings blunt doctor, then put me on some drugs for PD and some drugs for side effects, my plethora of drugs caused me to vomit the colous of the rainbow!

PET scan - is the only supposed true test...
be for sure, before the introduction of harmful meds

http://www.everydayhealth.com/parkin...rug-risks.aspx