Hi there. As my login name says, I got it too. Parkinson's, that is. This is my first post although I've been reading yours for many years.

My question is this: Is it possible that certain exercises or movements can trigger "on time", that is to say when the drug takes effect, and further, is it possible that after retraining the brain to compensate for the loss of ability, one might regain some of that lost ability?

I will try to keep this short and simple. There are two thoughts expressed above.

First, I find that when I am waiting for the Sinemet to take effect, sometimes while sitting down with my legs crossed, that is to say straight out but intertwined so to speak, I can feel and almost force the drug to begin to take effect. I still must wait a significant time (for me normally about 45 min.) but it appears that I am actually triggering the effect. At other times, when I am shaving albeit with great difficulty because I haven't had time to let the pill take effect, I can forcibly kick my toe behind me and into the ground and again, after a sort of toe stomping dance, feel the pill taking effect. At other times, as I sit and wait, the effect simply eases in.

Second, when I was not on any medication nor diagnosed with Parkinson's, I noticed my typing suffered as my right hand digits began to be less responsive to my 70 words per minute typing. This resulted in me hitting the key several times or not at all. This resulted in me gradually using my left hand to type. I confess I got rather good at it but had to force-think as my brain had to retrain to fully use my left hand. Subsequent to this I actually regained the use of my right hand and can now type with both hands as I used to before.

I am a male, 56 years old but diagnosed at the age of 45 after 10 years of doctors unable to decide what I had (symptoms started at the age of 35). Started medication in 2001, Sinemet 25\100, tried several other helper drugs but am largely only using Sinemet, varying between 10\100 and 25\100, trying to understand the difference (there doesn't seem to be much for me).

So, any others with similar situations?