To answer the original question, in my personal journey over the last 5+ years traveling internationally to speak at symposiums and conferences, and meeting literally thousands of people with PD along the way, my personal opinion is this: I see way too many people, who in the chase and quest to regain Pre-PD normalcy, take way too much medication, become disabled not by the PD, but by the medication side effects, and then turn to DBS for the answer. I find the whole thing really disturbing.

Dealing with a chronic disease takes a long term plan, but too many of us are in a rush to "feel better now" and that's hurting us in the long run. I know DBS has indeed helped a tremendous amount of people. I'm not debating it's benefits. But like everything else in life, I see it being abused, and for some very wrong reasons, and that bothers me.