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What do you do if the medication hasn't worked?
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What do you do if the medication hasn't worked?

This is Andy, an early retired anaesthetic manager, who is discussing his personal encounter with Parkinson's disease. Here he discusses what he does when 'Parkinson's goes away for the day' on some of his better days. If the medication doesn't work and his symptoms are particularly unavoidable, he does not fight them and waits out the discomfort.

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What sort of things would you do if it doesn't work? It depends on where I am. If I'm in the house and it doesn't work, I just, it depends how bad my symptoms are. So sometimes, sometimes my symptoms have a, have a, they're quite, you know, I have good days. It's like, you know, Parkinson's has gone off for the day and left me alone. And so I have good days. And then like any sensible person would do in that instance, when you're three o'clock into the day, I generally stick loud music on and dance around, like Tom Cruise in that film, where he was, I don't know what it's called now, when he's quite young. I can't remember what it's called, I haven't seen it in the 80s. Oh, it's going to annoy me now. Anyway, I was just dancing around, doing dead dancing. and generally waste all that time but I have real fun doing it. If my symptoms are particularly bad and you know I'll still shuffle about a bit and do a bit of housework and if they're really really bad I just sit in tv i sit down and watch tv for an hour so um yeah there's not there's there's sometimes you just have to let it let it win you know you have to beat you win that battle and sit down there's not an awful lot you can do about it but then when the tablets kick in and then you know you open about again it's it's it's it is what it is i can't do anything about it i just play play around with it.

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