Azilect. Should I feel any different?

[gingerj]

I have since Sunday been taking Azilect 1 mg each morning. That's just 3 days. So far I haven't seen any improvement in my tremor, slowness in my left arm, or stiffness in my shoulders. I've felt no negative side effect either thankfully. If it were to improve my condition should I be seeing signs by now?

[unsinkable]

I took Azilect for a few years, and never saw a difference,I just wanted to believe that it was slowing down the PD. My last visit the Dr said that it wasn't worth taking anymore because it hasn't been a proven drug to work. I go to a great Movement Disorder Clinic and see an internationally recognized expert on PD, so I believe what he says. Have not been taking it now for 4 months, and see no change, maybe even improvement, so I for me its one less drug in my system....which I like......besides the cost. I only take 4 reg sinement and 1 CR @ bedtime

[Bailey_Texas]

Azilect did nothing for me i but i took it because my DR. said it might slow down the progression of my pd so i took it for almost 10 years. At that point in time i was having nightmares nightly along with panic attacks and depression. I was crying and feeling sorry for my self. So i stopped all med and started back on them one at time but left Azilect and all the night time problems stopede.

[horsplay]

I only took azilect for 3 weeks. When the hallucinations, nightmares and panic attacks started, I stopped taking it and they went away.

[JohnPepper]

Levodopa medications hide some of the symptoms but does not do anything to slow down the Pd. Azilect increases the available dopamine in the brain. It does not temporarily hide any of the symptoms, so you will not notice it. But its benefit has been proven in scientific studies to slow down the progress of Pd, which is what you want.

Exercise not only slows down the progression of Pd it can even reverse some of the symptoms.

Use the Azilect in conjunction with the exercise and you will get where you want to be and that is BETTER!

[PDConscience in reply to JohnPepper]

Yet again JP succeeds in outstanding fashion to exemplify the peril of forums: On one side you have the advice of A): a former print shop operator who PRESUMES the qualification to advise you on what prescription medications are best for you; on the other side you have B): an "internationally recognized expert on PD" who revealed on the patient's most recent visit that "it [Azilect] wasn't worth taking anymore because it hasn't been a proven drug to work."

The patient, 'unsinkable', then goes on to elaborate - from personal experience - that they have since that recent visit "not been taking it now for 4 months, and see no change, maybe even improvement, so for me its one less drug in my system..."

Hmmm... who is one to believe? The presumptuous wannabe expert (backed solely by an unchecked ego), or the qualified expert (backed by license/credentials/experience)?

[gingerj]

Thanks for your replies. I guess I need to start sinemet sooner rather than later then.

[JohnPepper]

You really do talk the biggest load of TRASH. That Print Shop is a huge Public Company employing over 3000 people. I have never offered advice as a medically trained person only as a Patient with 26 years of experience since diagnosis. I tell people what has happened to me, which has been checked out by better people than you.

You quote an unknown person who gives advice that goes against everything I have read about MAOb inhibitors over the past 10 years.

I don't have time to look up all these reports. You obviously get paid by someone to make you disgusting accusations. I hope they pay you well!