just wondering what your reasoning is to spend a lot of money on an alternative treatment, having to seek non-expert advice on a message board when you have a problem, rather than use cheap, highly effective carbidopa/levodopa and consult with a pd specialist? are you involved with pd support groups where you can see how well/poorly pd'ers are doing on conventional meds? this is none of my business so don't feel compelled to respond.

imho though, if your wife can't exercise because of her pd or have a social life, you owe it to her to consider switching to carbidopa/levodopa if only temporarily just to give her some relief. i apologize if you have already tried this drug and it didn't work.

i suggest you watch this video about unfounded l-dopa fears, here's the text of a message i posted:


Dr. Eric Ahlskog

Peterborough Conference, October 2012

http://www.cno.parkinson.ca/site/c.j...sons_Video.htm
parkinson's society central and northern arizpna

old timer, written at least 2 books on pd, initially talks about pd in general and history of L-DOPA, gets to the meat and potatoes around 17minutes into video.
also discusses agonists and azilect.


major point made is people who are undermedicated progress faster than those that aren't, implication is undermedicated people don't exercise enough.

interesting discussion of constipation in q&a, no magic bullet but makes suggestions at start of Q&A

just want to help.