VICTORIALOU,

I like your approach: do due diligence, take full resposibility for your own actions.

Reading your post the following details jumped out of the page: 16 years post DX, workload, 400 mg / day levodopa.

Whether it's the ibuprofen or not I have no idea, but you appear to be doing something right.

Please forgive me if I ask a few questions, but I'd like to get a better idea of your apparently slow rate of progression.

Do you take agonists as well?

At what age were you diagnosed?

What's the furthest you've walked in a day in the last year?

(As a comparison, I'm nearly 8 years post diagnosis, unable to work, 300 mg levodopa plus 16 mg ropinirole per day, diagnosed at 49, 10 miles in a day [my lower body is less affected than my upper body]).

Talking generally, this experience goes to show the need for good progression stats, so we can make comparisons. It also shows the need to aggregate experiences; between us, are there 5 good experiences of ibuprofen or 1 good experience and 5 bad?

John