interesting experience with recumbent bike
 

i purchased a bike after trying last year's model out at a store. bought this year's model and had it assembled there and tried it out, worked fine. next morning, got help to carry it from my car into the house. started using it and it was awful. really jerky, couldn't get comfortable. puzzled, had someone else try it and they had no problems. figured out i was under medicated at the moment. when i tried it out at the store, i had timed my meds to be at their max and the next morning, hadn't taken anything before getting on the bike. took my 200mg sinemet and the jerkiness went away. really like it.

i still try to take the minimum meds i need to function, and that's 200-400mg sinemet and 5-10mg selegilene but there are days i don't take anything, just foolish but i guess i'n trying to extend their effectiveness and psychologically reluctant to totally mask my symptoms. when off, terrible mental fatigue and i have difficulty initiating that 1st step. when on, i.e. taking meds, nearly normal.

Weird, but true.
 

I can relate to your story, Today my morning dose worked just fine. Took my second dose, 2 1/2 hours later, just before my yoga class started. Ten minutes into my Yoga class, my morning dose totally faded. It's really amazing seeing my body transform from someone able to balance and do yoga perfectly fine, to someone with no strength or balance in a matter of a few minutes. I ended up laying down for most of the remaining portion of the class. Meds still didn't kick in at the end of class, but fortunately it finally kicked in after I showered. (Ever try to put on a t-shirt, unmediated, on a damp body?). I was talking to one of the guys in the locker room about pd, and he couldn't believe my transformation of a person barely able to walk to the shower to becoming almost normal in a couple of minutes while getting dressed and walking out just fine.
I'm finding the longer I have pd the shorter the time duration of the on/off transformation. Weird, but true. It’s like walking on a ridge, it used to be a rounded top, now it’s a knife edge.

P.S. Here’s a tip to putting on a t-shirt over a damp body: Roll up the back side, then unroll it after you put it on.

Enjoy life always,
Max

Cool shirt trick