What is the choice between medication and surgery for Parkinson’s?

  When Parkinson’s patients go to the hospital for treatment, they are usually introduced to medication and surgery, which makes it difficult for many patients to choose which treatment is right for them. The following is a description of the relationship between medication and surgery in the treatment of Parkinson’s.  Nowadays, medication for Parkinson’s is the main treatment method and most patients should choose this method for treatment. It is very effective for symptom relief and control in the early stages, and even when the disease progresses to the middle and late stages, when the efficacy of drugs is diminished, drugs still play an irreplaceable role. The symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are getting heavier in the middle and late stages, and the contradiction between drug efficacy and toxic side effects is becoming more and more prominent. Even if the dose of drugs is increased, the duration of efficacy is very short, the effect is limited, and the patient is very painful and in a drug-free state most of the time.  If the effect of drug treatment is not good, surgical treatment can be chosen to relieve the symptoms, so a brain pacemaker is chosen to help patients prolong the time of drug action, improve the patient’s symptoms when there is no drug action, reduce the dose of medication, reduce the side-effects of drugs such as foreign movement, and improve the quality of life. Therefore, the two treatments are not opposed to each other; medication is not meant to be taken without surgery, and surgery is not meant to be taken without medication. The best treatment for patients with intermediate and advanced Parkinson’s disease should be “Parkinson’s medication in one hand and a brain pacemaker in the other”.  The above is a brief introduction to Parkinson’s treatment. It can be seen that for early stage patients, medication should be the main treatment, and if the symptoms can be controlled, the goal is achieved. And if the medication is not very useful, then you can choose a brain pacemaker for treatment, which has more obvious advantages and causes less harm to the patient.