New School Year? New Drug Regimen!
Below I list my daily dosages of all my drugs. Please note that the times I’ve listed are for Mondays through Fridays, when I wake up at 4:00 a.m. to […]
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Medications
Another Year? Another Drug Regimen!
I visited my neurologist last week. As usual, she’s delighted that I’m doing so well, and she adjusted my meds as follows. As before, I’ve included medications prescribed by my
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Sleep Disturbances Worsen as Parkinson’s Disease Progresses
Bottom line first: For many Parkies, sleep problems worsen over time. Yes, we already knew this first hand. But some recent research, which followed 218 newly-diagnosed Parkies for five years and
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Impulse Control Disorders + PD = A Bad Mix
Compulsive gambling. Persistent out-of-control shopping sprees. Hypersexuality. Chronic binge eating. These conditions, known as Impulse Control Disorders (ICD), occur for many Parkies, and it’s mostly based on what medicines they’re
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Watch the Watch!
CNBC just reported that Apple upgraded its Apple Watch with a feature that lets Parkies (and their doctors and medical researchers) track tremors, thus knowing better if and when meds
Cannabidiol (CBD oil), w/ Modals
Time for a brief English grammar session! Do you know what a modal is? It’s a kind of verb that gets attached to another verb to modify it. Examples of
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What Marijuana Isn’t
Although the jury is still out on whether medical marijuana offers real benefits for Parkies (mostly because the U.S. government classifies it as a dangerous Schedule 1 drug, alongside heroin
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Guest Post: Free App to Keep Track of Your PD
A company called My Therapy offers a free app to help you keep track of when you should take your pills, when you have doctor appointments, and how often you’re getting
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New Year? New Drug Regimen!
I visited my neurologist yesterday. In general, she’s pleased as punch that the disease is not progressing, and she adjusted my meds as follows. As before, I’ve included medications prescribed
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Review: “A Man Walks Off His Parkinsonian Symptoms”
A psychiatrist recently suggested I read Chapter 2 of The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontier of Neuroplasticity, by Norman Doidge, MD. Chapter 2 is
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