I’m sorry to hear this—my dad is now in his 15th year of Parkinson’s. My advice: when you take your LevaDopa, watch very carefully how it seems to work based on your sleep cycles and when you eat. My dad found eating less was best—he keeps a log tracking his symptoms with the meds because the doctors don’t really individualize the medication. They just prescribe it but there’s a real art to it—trial and error on the part of the patient.
I visited him today—his best hours are now between 10 am and noon. He says he “turns into a pumpkin” after 4 pm these days. So we are mindful of the rhythms of his day.
I’ve hot my Sinemet dosages down pretty good. The trick is to find the balance between just enough to control the tremors and not enough to cause the dyskinesia.