[William Gardner]

My medication for/against PD started with one tablet of Sinemet 25/100, 3 times a day at 4 hr intervals, from 8 a.m. After a few months it was increased to 4 times a day. I’ve been on that since. No other changes.
Blackouts – had one lasting half a second or so. That had me on my back on a nice grassy bank. Nowhere near pill time but I had been putting some moderate effort into walking.(I do around 40 mins a day – the limit I can do) On a couple of other occasions I’ve had to sit & rest for a few minutes before carrying on walking.
Cycling is easier – but that’s not quite the effort required for walking. Bit of catch-22 🙂

[William Gardner]

Just luck of the draw.

There’s no history of PD in my family. Dementia, yes.

All my life I’ve NEVER been a pill-taker, so haven’t been slowly poisoning myself that way.
Been a smoker, tho’. Packed that in 20 years ago.

[William Gardner]

Tremor in my right hand. I had been, sort of, hiding it, sitting on it, ’til my daughter asked “What’s the score with the shaking?”

Not too long after that I went to the doctor’s saying I think I may have Parkinson’s Disease. After a few physical tests he said “I think you may be right”.

It was about a year later that I went to a specialist & was officially diagnosed.

I started off with a pill, Sinemet 25/100 3 times a day, for a few weeks – moving to 4 times a day.
Can’t say the pills seem to make much difference ! Maybe help a bit with constipation 🙂 Still don’t sleep well
easily fatigued, eyelids glued together. Some of this stuff, with hindsight, has been going on for many years.
Difficult to tell, I’m naturally bone-idle – or thought I was !!

Cheers, Bill.

P.S. Sorry I’ve got carried away here & should have spread this over numerous forums …