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What types of things do you have to consider?
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What types of things do you have to consider?

This is Andy, an early retired anaesthetic manager, who is discussing his personal encounter with Parkinson's disease. Here he speaks about what he takes into consideration when planning activities around his medication and what happens if the medication is taken late.

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you know going going out first thing is the first thing i think about i've got i've got my tablets um you know have i got this i've got that um where we're going you know going to a concert concert i can't stand up anymore i have to make sure it's easy if it's not seating i can't go and then it's it's it's just like a different way of looking at your life you know you know if you know it's actually if you wake up in the morning you think well I'll have a cup of coffee, you know, I'll deal with, mine is, I'll do that, but I can only do that once I've had my tablets, otherwise I can't do it. You know, and if someone wants to do this, if someone wants to go to the movies at four o'clock in the afternoon, I can't go because my tablets will run off and it'll be pointless. So, I have to, but it's just a different way of looking at your day. If you take your medication late, Do you lag throughout the day or can you catch up? You kind of catch up. And also the medication doesn't always work. It's not, it's not a given. Like, you know, if I take my, the morning tablets normally work because I've had a long time without them. The morning ones are pretty good. The afternoon ones aren't too bad, but the evening one, my sort of five o'clock one, I take six doses during the day. My morning, the sort of five o'clock one, it depends on what it feels like. might work, it might not. And then the nine, so the nine o'clock one, again, same sort of thing really, you might have a day off, you might turn up, you never know. Always keeps you going, keeps you on your toes. Yeah, but it doesn't always work, but it's all I have. So if it doesn't work, I just have to sit there and think, okay, next one will work or next one might not work you know it's all i have i have to i have to do it that way otherwise it's not gonna be it's not it's not gonna it's not gonna um there's nothing else i can do

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