i take Levodopa ( madopar ) i have no side effects with them at all , i was concerned about starting l-dopa so young but my neuro did say that as far as dyskenisias were concerned if and when they became a problem there were the option of dbs in the future and the dyskenisias were not as bad as they used to be years ago , he said many neurologists used to delay the use of levopdopa in younger people and push dopamine agonists but they now know that the risk of impulsive behaviour is more higher of a risk in the younger pwp that most neuros will not delay the use of levodopa , my neuro gave me the option of a da or levodopa i took the levodopa option , my pd nurse is talking about adding a slow release pramipexole for bedtime but neuro says increase my madopar to a fourth dose , not entirely sure about the pramipexole ill have to give it some thought
Yes I will certainly ask if I can change to Levadopa, I know Dyskinesis is a side effect but to be perfectly frank I would rather have some involuntary movements than carrying on feeling like this. Ropinirole can also cause gambling and shopping addictions, I think its terrible that a drug that can cause someone to become a gambling or shopping addict is licenced in the first place.
Yes that is my main concern about the pramipexole , neuro seems to think i should just up the madopar to four doses a day , but pd nurse thinks just a low slow release pramipexole dose at bedtime as well as my madopar , surely it would take more than one dose a day to cause gambling problems etc , what dose were you taking Gus ?
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the neuro did say to me when he offered me a dopamine agonist or levodopa that a DA would not work as well as levodopa my thinking was i will deal with the dyskinesias if and when they happen i would rather have some normality back
i think she is thinking of keeping my 3 x125mg of madopar and 1mg rasagiline and just adding one dose of slow release to fill in the gaps so to speak really don't know what to do neuro says take a 4th dose of madopar pd nurse says different i'm thinking its a case of better the devil you know and going for 4th dose of Madopar i had enough nausea problems with the sinemet couldn't go through that again
shelly has said it all, i take pramipexole specificallly for restless legs,for some reason DAs are better than levadopa for this. but have had some worrying ocd symptoms recently.
my turn! madopar is levadopa plus an extra ingredient that stops it being used up before it gets to the brain. sinemet is levadopa with a different extra ingredient that does the same job.
As Turnip said Madopar is Levodopa there are sinemet and Madopar i never got on with sinemet it made me horribly sick so i changed to Madopar
I first noticed a tremor about four or five years ago so that was probably the start of it but it was always put down to other things by my gp at that time , last year i noticed aches and stiffness when getting out of bed and getting up from a chair again my gp put it down to my thyroid problem only when i developed a painful left shoulder and i internal tremor did they send me to a neurologist in August 20013 who diagnosed Parkinsons , then 3 weeks later my mother was also diagnosed with Parkinsons
I was started off on Rasagiline but really did not get much effect from that at all so when i went back to neuro in November he gave me the choice of a DA or Levodopa , he said a DA will not work as well as Levodopa and i would need to go on levodopa within a year so i opted for Levodopa no point in struggling on a DA for sake of a year, the problems with impulsive behaviour on DAs was one of the reasons i opted for Levodopa
