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Short survey to understand experiences of wearing off

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It would be really helpful to gain a better understanding of what happens when your medication wears off as everyone has a different experience. If you have a few minutes, could you very kindly complete the following survey.

Very many thanks

Helen

surveymonkey.com/s/6MD33R2

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I very quickly get a tightening of chest muscles, making breathing difficult, and often along with that muscle cramps in my feet and legs.

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silvestrov

As with much things in life, this survey falls under the category of false dilemma.

The reason why Parkinson's patients have wearing off periods is the main drug given to them, Sinemet/L-d dopa/carbidopa & levodopa, stops working - in it tachylphylactic: dictionary.reference.com/br...

2. a decreased response to a medicine given over a period of time so that larger doses are required to produce the same response.

The drug Sinemet has been repeatedly out performed by the amino acid tyrosine (which cannot be taken with Sinemet) : ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/250...

Sinemet was also out performed by the velvet bean - from the mucuna pruriens plant:

link.springer.com/article/1...

This article has everything you want to know about MP. And, from an Indian company, there is a product called Zandopa and though if cannot be purchased through Amazon.com, read the reviews: amazon.com/Zandopa-Natural-...

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