Happy Holiday season to you. You have decided to stop your sinemet to discover the results. It was intended as an experiment to share with us online. You did not insist we follow every post. Just curious, When does your test reach a conclusion.

Many people on this site share your distrust of Sinemet. They turn to holistic medicines and try not to focus only on medicine to make them well. They prefer to rely on themselves to improve their quality of life. And many are very successful. Parkinson's disease is biological and holistic treatment, will improve the quality of their lives but will not stop the damage caused by this disease. If you are performing a test, it needs not only to be documented, it also must reach a conclusion. Do you regard the conclusion when the disease has progressed to the point where you are unable to take care of your daughter. Do you intend to make her suffer with you until your experiment reaches its morbid conclusion? Just curious very concerned and empathetic.

I hope you pay close attention to Everett's post. My son is a paramedic and has told me the worst way he has seen a patient die was from an suicide by taking a whole bottle of Ibuprophin.

The reason you feel no motivation is caused by the biological progress of the disease. Apathy is caused by lack of dopamine causes a loss of endorphines, the "feel good" hormone. It is the most dangerous of all the symptoms. Observe your routine as stated by you. You need help getting up in the morning. You are unable to motivate yourself, yet you drive the children to school? You spend a great deal of time in a jacuzzi with your wife and young daughter. No exercise, no observing of your diet. This is the good example you want to leave your children? the best they can expect is to not try to succeed, not help themselves, Sit in a jacuzzi all day with no thought of anyone but themselves?

Love, Vicky