by the way he admitted to diane sawyer on inside
addition to staying off the drugs before the testimony
before the congress for "effect." 

i really don't care what drugs he uses, if he don't
take them, they do not work. 

--- Mike Collis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Wikipedia has an entry to add to this: 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Fox
> 
> Fox, PD Symptoms and Treatment
> Parkinson's disease is a chronic disorder. At
> present, there is no cure, but
> medications can provide relief from the symptoms. In
> a National Public Radio
> Fresh Air interview (April 2002), Fox states that he
> manages his symptoms
> using Sinemet, a commercial form of Levodopa
> (L-dopa). L-dopa treatment
> decreases in effectiveness as it is used over a long
> period of time, so Fox
> like many PD sufferers, extends the life of its
> effectiveness by using it as
> little as possible. When on the medication, the
> symptoms shown (dyskinesia)
> are different than that of PD. On Fresh Air, Michael
> J. Fox explains how his
> medication management affects his public
> appearences:
> 
> Terry Gross (host): The intensity of Fox's symptoms
> varies. . .I asked him
> what he does when he gets symptomatic during an
> interview.
> 
> FOX: Well, actually, I've been erring on the side of
> caution--I think
> 'erring' is actually the right word--in that I've
> been medicating perhaps
> too much, in the sense that a lot of times the
> symptoms that people see in
> some of these interviews that have been on are
> actually dyskinesia, which is
> a reaction to the medication. Because if I were
> purely symptomatic with
> Parkinson's symptoms, a lot of times speaking is
> difficult. There's a kind
> of a cluttering of speech and it's very difficult to
> sit still, to sit in
> one place. You know, the symptoms are different, so
> I'd rather kind of
> suffer the symptoms of dyskinesia. . .this kind of
> weaving and this kind of
> continuous thing is much preferable, actually, than
> pure Parkinson's
> symptoms. So that's what I generally do. . . . . .So
> I haven't had any, you
> know, problems with pure Parkinson's symptoms in any
> of these interviews,
> because I'll tend to just make sure that I have
> enough Sinemet in my system
> and, in some cases, too much. But to me, it's
> preferable. It's not
> representative of what I'm like in my everyday life.
> I get a lot of people
> with Parkinson's coming up to me saying, 'You take
> too much medication.' I
> say, 'Well, you sit across from Larry King and see
> if you want to tempt it.'
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> ken barber
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Interesting WashPost Article.
> 
> he was thinking that he was off his meds on purpose
> like he has admitted to doing before. 
> 
> it does make for good politics because no one is
> suposed to critisize a "victim." it is done all the
> time. 
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