if anyone is interested in responding, i am very much interested to hear from people who are on any form of levodopa. in particular, i am interested in answers to the following questions:

1) what was the first drug prescribed for your pd symptoms?
2) at the time you started any form of levodopa, do you have any idea what either your UPDRS score and/or your Hoehn & Yahr stage was?
3) regardless of your score(s), how would you rate your symptoms on a scale of 1 to 10 at the time you started levodopa, where 1 is no symptoms and 10 is being incapacitated? were you unable to work without it, for example, if you were still working at all? if you were retired, were there other crucial things besides work that you couldn't do?

thanks in advance to anyone who responds!
Boann