Does Sinemet help balance?

[kaypeeoh]

I don't have classic PD signs. I have tremor in one arm. I tried Sinemet for a year before deciding it wasn't doing anything. Recently I have balance problems. Would Sinemet help or not? My understanding was that Sinemet helped motor problems like akinesia but not non-motor problems like balance. Any ideas?

[park_bear]

The answer is maybe, depending on the cause. There are several possible causes of difficulty with balance. To name a few – motor impairment, impaired proprioception, and vestibular organ disorder. What is your experience of balance trouble?

[kaypeeoh in reply to park_bear]

The only way I can describe it is feeling a little-bit tipsy. As If I've had half a beer. No problems walking, no tripping or falling, I had to replace tires on my wife's sailboat trailer. I had a lot of trouble standing after squatting for an hour bolting the tires on. I had to crawl on hands and knees to a cyclone fence and pull myself erect.

[M-o-ggy in reply to kaypeeoh]

That is one of the things I have. B1 helped Bio resonance has also helped ; Apparently my Chakra/s was/were open

It tends to revert when there is a high pollen count

[park_bear in reply to kaypeeoh]

Vestibular related. In my experience Sinemet did not help with that.

[kaypeeoh in reply to park_bear]

This morning I tried Sinemet two tabs 25mg--100mg. I walked for two hours with no balance problems. I guess that means I need Sinemet. Didn't do crap for the arm tremor though.

[nellie58]

My husband is totally unsteady with Sinemet or the derivative in his system. That is because he has advanced Parkinson's( 25 years ) and the Sinemet misfires in his system making him turn to fast, jitter while he walks, sleepy and he take risks and puts himself in dangerous situations he wouldn't otherwise do. Once his daily dose of Sinemet has worn off in the morning ( he takes 2 slow release tablets at 2am and they wear of between 9 - 10am) his balance is totally restored, thanks to B1.

I wish he didn't need the Sinemet at all but it gives him the top up of dopamine he needs each day.

[kaypeeoh in reply to nellie58]

I wake in the morning and am unsteady as if I've been drinking. Five minutes later I've taken Sinemet and no longer dizzy. But I can't stand on one leg for more than 15 seconds. So one symptom is PD related and one symptom is simple age, perhaps a weak core? I'll turn 64 in two months. Correction: The left leg it's 15 seconds. The right leg recently had surgery for Haglund's Deformity and not more than 5 seconds.