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Originally Posted by Jim091866
You mentioned that the symptoms he was having such as OCD, paranoia, hallucinations, etc diminshed substantially or went away. I would suggest that any symptom that improved when he was off the pump is side effect and indicative of too high a dose. The signs that stayed are disease related. Just curious but did the swallowing difficulty change? What about the dimentia and OCD?
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I believe, from observation standpoint only, that the swallowing difficulties he was having while on the Duodopa diminished substantially when he had to go off the pump. The OCD did, too, but perhaps he was just "off" so much that his condition curtailed his OCD behaviors. The hallucinations and other psychotic behaviors have been around for 10 years prior to diagnosis, so they've been there prior to any treatment, and continue to haunt him (no pun intended). When off the pump, the neurologist has him on 1.5 Sinemet (25/100) per hour! And still he goes off regularly.