Themore that things change, the more they stay the same same. There were a lot of heat ed arguments around here about therapeutics and outcomes of compounds and devices to stop or attenuate the symptoms of PD, and much of what is archived here is not the truth. The fact is, that despite X-years of PD research, the only usful drugs are few, and devices such as stem-cells have not been fully investigated.
However, it is what it is. There is no way out of here, for the highly advanced PWP. Unlike Alzheimers whiich is a full or partial atrophy of nearly all structures in the entire brain, PD is caused by a loccal atrophy which may or may not affecf the activity of certain brain regions, just loss of motor neurons in the basal area of the brain which can lead to more global involvement .
Sad to say, the "new" drugs that have hit the market are all mixtures, usually with some fporm of L-Dopa being the main ingrsediant, compounded with long realease amantadine or other delivery forms of l-dopa that i.m too disgusted with them to even mention them Hundreds of people have tried hundreds of "devices, from injections of glutathione tothe use of electromagnetic field exposure;. There's the same old "new" MAO2 inhibitors, COMT inhibitors, etc , and of course we are never allowed to forget the "bright future of PD research" that the intensely dishonorable "dopamine agonists" offered to us, that screwed with a lot of our minds. sorry i can't keep typing but there is more to this story of the scientific failure imho. ol'cs