Experiences with

Tasmar

. ● Tolcapone (Tasmar) or entacapone (Comtan): inhibit dopamine breakdown. ● Anticholinergic drugs: for resting tremor. ● Clozapine: for levadopa-induced dyskinesias. (Note: All these medications can produce hallucinations and daytime somnolence.)

When the effectiveness of Sinemet or Parcopa begins to wear off (its effects will last for increasingly shorter periods of time as the disease progresses), you will need to increase the amount of medication, or add another medication called a COMT inhibitor [Comtan (entacapone); Tasmar (tolcapone)] that

program director said he'd have no meds over the weekend (try and not be in the hospital over the weekend, folks), when we saw him Saturday, he was already overmedicated as they were giving him 1 1/2 Sinemet every two hours, which was his regular dose prior to DBS (in actuality he was taking that plus Tasmar