Hello, @psvantx - I wanted to add my welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect along with @hopeful33250. That sounds really hard having your biggest fear come true with getting a Parkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis recently after watching your mother and brother suffer and die from the disease. I have never had a PD diagnosis, but have had high anxiety before with high-stress situations. I recognize that is a difficult way to live.

Since you are currently thinking over the side effects you read about the medications prescribed for your Parkinson's, rasagiline and carbidopa-levodopa, I'm hoping that others can come in and talk about their (or a loved one's) experiences with these medications. @psvantx, please meet @susan62 @jdb @ggopher @trouble4343 @anna1060.

I'd also like to invite other members who've talked about these two medications in various Mayo Clinic Connect discussions —@safari1949 @mjfelder1 @maxaz1 @stephenmcelroy @justinian @gwgrover — to share any side effects or lack thereof they (or someone close to them) has had with taking rasagiline and/or carbidopa-levodopa.

psvantx, you talked about your anxiety being through the roof at this point. Is this due to the diagnosis, what you read about potential medication side effects, or something else?

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