Dear Lou_Lou

So sorry you have this problem! I have a new development going on, maybe someone can tell me if it's dystonia! I'ts this pinched nerve in my lower back/hip, running down my right leg, causing pins-and-needles in my foot. The funny thing is that it is completely LevoCarb responsive, coming on as I come down off the drug every afternoon, and easing off as the Sinemet comes on at first-dose in the morning.

I'm in the 11th year of PD, just LevoCarb: ~600mg/day, (100mg of chewed-up Sinemet CR + a crumb of fast release generic Levo-Carb, every 2 hours or so). ( I can't take more than 600 mg or the dyskensia makes it close to impossible to walk.)

For the past few weeks, the daily pinched-nerve-drug-come-down episode has made it mostly impossible to do anything at all but go to bed, in the evening. I'm doing magnesium, but it hasn't fixed the problem.

I heard somewhere about "dopamine responsive sciatic dystonia" which sounds like it, but turns out to be something else entirely.

Any leads?

Wishing you all the very best