Sinemet

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Does anyone have any experience with the side effects of Sinemet. My

wife has been taking this med for a year in combination with neurontin

and its been doing its job.

She is currently in her 8th stay in a hospital (1 of 4) being treated

for vomiting. She started April 14 after taking the above night meds.

No other differences before that. She has had many, many gastro

intestinal tests run from her mouth to her rectum. They have all been

negative. No blockages, no ulcers, no tumors. Motility tests show the

digestive system working normal. They now have moved to this being a

mental event. And its possible without going into details that this is

the triggering mechanism that is causing the vomiting. But in all this

time they have not taken her off the sinemet until I prodded them at

Mayo Hospital in Phoenix to do so, just on the pretense that it could be

a contributor since one of the side effects of sinemet is vomiting.

This was discontinued May 28. Vomiting seems to have stopped (although

she is also getting psychiatric help at this same time). They are

continuing the neurontin and have increase the dose to offset the

discontinuance of sinemet.

Help from anyone with knowledge of sinemet, its side effects, long term,

particularly vomiting is urgently needed.

Thank you, Chuck (list member is my wife Donna)