How do Parkinson’s patients adjust their own medications?

Parkinson’s disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease, the treatment can not only focus on the immediate, the need for long-term management, taking into account the long-term therapeutic effect. However, many patients due to some other reasons often unauthorized addition or subtraction of drugs, Tang Du Hospital Professor Wang Xuelian reminded that the practice of patients to add or subtract their own medication is incorrect, each Parkinson’s disease patient’s symptoms are not the same, the size of the dose of medication taken is different, each drug adjustment requires a professional doctor deployment, the patient can not be resolved on their own. With regard to Parkinson’s disease medication, a large amount of levodopa, a short period of time, involuntary dance-like movements and other difficult to regulate the anisotropy, while a small dose, even if taken for a long period of time, anisotropy is not a high incidence of anisotropy. Parkinson’s disease medication adjustments are very complex, and over time, patients may be on medication for shorter and shorter periods of time, and may not be able to use only one medication from start to finish, but may have to add or subtract other medications. Each time the symptoms change, you need to have to adjust to match, so Parkinson’s disease patients can not privately stop taking medication, change the dose. Parkinson’s disease patients should do the following: 1, Parkinson’s disease patients can not reduce the amount of medication on their own. Especially for patients with progressive disease, reducing the dose and frequency of medication may result in significant symptom exacerbation or end-of-dose phenomenon, which greatly affects the quality of life. 2, on the issue of prescribing drugs, if the patient is not convenient to personally go to the hospital to prescribe drugs, you can let your family members or children take your medical records, go to the hospital to find a doctor to prescribe drugs, but pay attention to the protection, take a good temperature, wear a good mask, and avoid staying in the crowded places. 3, if it is inconvenient to go out, you can contact the doctor through the network consultation, consult the hospital whether there is a mail drug service, do not reduce the medication without authorization, may cause symptoms to worsen.