Medications of Parkinson's Disease
or
Once Upon A Pill:
Patient Experiences With Dopamine-enhancing Drugs and Supplements
by Janice Walton-Hadlock. 2003
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This book is an in-depth look at Parkinson's disease medications and the brain chemistry of Parkinson's. Even so, many people who are not using antiparkinson's medications have found this book very helpful in understanding the chemistry of Parkinson's disease and how ongoing western medicine brain research supports Asian medical theory.
Parkinson's patients using L-dopa, dopamine agonists, MAO inhibitors and other alternative dopamine-enhancing drugs and supplements were closely studied as they participated in a four-year research project sponsored by the non-profit Parkinson's Recovery Project. The unexpected findings of this project have led to an entirely new hypothesis of how these poorly-understood drugs actually work. Unlike the dominant paradigm's understanding of these drugs, which holds that these drugs and their traumatic side effects are somewhat unpredictable, our new hypotheses provide a way of unraveling the "unpredictable" nature of these drugs. This new understanding has enabled us to make accurate predictions about how dosings and rate of dose changes effect people with Parkinson's. Our patients were able to discover safe methods for slowly increasing and decreasing drug doses to control the benefits and adverse effects of the medications.
This book also provides case studies that demonstrate the life-threatening dangers that arose when people recovered from Parkinson's disease while still under the influence of antiparkinson's drugs. These tragedies led to the Parkinson's Recovery Project's conclusion that people who have ever used antiparkinson's medications for more than three weeks are not suitable subjects for recovery from Parkinson's. Even so, people who are currently using antiparkinson's medication and are, therefore, not good candidates for our program, may learn in this book the methods of dosing that might help them use their medications with better results, including fewer adverse side effects and a profound slowing down of the problem of ever-increasing drug-dependence.
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