Update on azilect and research whether starting it early makes any kind of difference in the progression of Parkinson's

[parkie13]

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/274...

[alexask]

So no difference.

[parkie13 in reply to alexask]

That is what I get from it

[Jennyjenny2 in reply to parkie13]

Do I understand this correctly? Are the researchers saying there is no difference after 3 years of taking Azilect (with side effects) compared to not taking it at all?

[jrg54321 in reply to alexask]

Not exactly. There was no difference between those that started azilect early versus those that started later. They didn't compare those that didn't take azilect at all.

[Angelo65]

Hi Parkie, I’ve taken aziliect for first 4 years of being diagnosed. Also merapecin. Ref. Side effects. I do occasionally wake up lashing out. Other times A animal is attaching me. I jumped out of bed and wake. Of course this is a concern for my wife safety when i lash out. I have now been moved on to rasagilne 1mg one per day. The hollucinations have not changed. I don’t know what’s causing the hallucinations. I’ve mentioned to my nurse. I should ask for my norologorlist Specialist for a opinion. Im been diagnosed nearly five years and have deteriorated slightly. Getting a good sleep is often difficult. I turn often , twitch . If I don’t take tablets for any reason I’m guaranteed to disrupt my sleep pattern for a few days. Which is pretty disruptive to normal life. I struggle dealing with more than one thing at a time although I’m busy running a Property development business. I also rather greedy. Luckily I’m still quite active playing tennis. This is getting difficult due to reactions so on. I am positive by nature and feel this is very important. Not sure if this is helpful. Wish you the best.

[parkie13 in reply to Angelo65]

Hi, I just noticed your reply. I know that some people take azilect and they don't have any side effects, when I took it I definitely kept on forgetting things and couldn't remember anything either. Then I got some bad side effects so I stopped. There is still no agreement weather azilect is a helpful drug or not. I'm sorry about your vivid dreams. I don't know what you can do for it except somebody mentioned one time that for hallucinations husband took niacin. I don't know whether taking niacin would help or not but it would be a harmless enough therapy. He worked up to a thousand mg a day. The niacin makes your face feel hot and flushed so you can't take thousand to begin with. Also taking a good multi and a b complex would probably help. I'm glad that you're doing so well.