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My husband was diagnosed with PD 7 years ago. He’s been doing pretty well through medication and intense exercise 🤞🏻
Recently he wasn’t feeling so well. Saw his Movement Dr. as it turned out, he was having bad side effects of Rasagline. (He’s been taking it for at least 5 years). His gait was off. When he walked his left hand would curl behind his back. Acting out violently in his dreams. More muscle stiffness, etc. he’s been off of Resagline for 4 days now and he says, he hasn’t felt so good for such a long time. It’s not a cure, but a warning that, sometimes certain drugs could turn against you.
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It's also a good idea to review you med with your doctor from time to time. I take 21 meds - PD, asthma, high bp, high choresterol, low thyroid,, particularly if you are fetting meds frim mire than 1 doctor. I try to do it once a year. Things change: the may have discovered an new interaction between meds. Mabe it's ok to take med A with med B, and ok to take med B wirh Med C, BUT you shouldn't take all 3 of them. Or mabe some newbproblem with a particular med had come yonlight; maybeva new med has been released tgart wiuld be better for you. I include mybscedulr fir taking my meds, because maybe i've been taking somethun on a full stomach and i snhould have been taking ut on an empty somach OR, maybe you've been taking a med for 10 years for osteopoenia and it turns out that if you takr it oire tha 7 years, it can makeyour bones brittle. ( really happened to ne!)