Have you ever done some experimenting with your medication?
Because sometimes my medication didn’t seem to work I’ve done some tests to find out what might cause this annoying phenomenon.
If I eat a copious meal before I take medication it will sometimes take more than 2 hours before the pills take effect. Sometimes it feels like I haven’t had anything at all.
If I eat a small snack, rich of carbohydrates, right after taking my pills I get the fastest response.
I get a better result if I take my pills with enough water.
The reason for this all is that levodopa is metabolised in the stomach. Sometimes there is not much left over when the medicine has reached the duodenum. It is only here where the Parkinson medication is absorbed in the blood.
Duodopa is administered directly into the duodenum, but a clever patient may not need this for a few years.