What Should You Pay Attention To Before Taking Medication For Parkinson's Disease? It Is Important To Understand These 8 Points!
Apr 11, 2022
Parkinson's disease is a chronic progressive disease that requires lifelong medication to control symptoms. However, because the side effects of drugs cannot be completely avoided, and more and more medication is often used, the effect is getting worse and worse. Some patients with Parkinson's disease will have such a mentality: since it is not cured, taking medicine will not work, and there is no way to cure it, so they simply stop taking medicine, and reduce or even stop taking medicine on their own. Such reckless reduction and withdrawal of medication on their own are completely "playing with fire".
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Parkinson's patients must pay attention to the following eight points:
1. A systematic and detailed examination should be carried out to accurately identify Parkinson's disease from other similar diseases, such as Parkinson's syndrome, essential tremor, cerebrovascular disease, and orthopedic diseases. The differences in these diseases are relatively small in the early stage, and it is necessary to detect clues through necessary inspection methods, such as PET examination of brain dopamine transporters. If you take the drug rashly without inspection, unexpected adverse reactions and consequences may occur.
2. There are different types of Parkinson's disease, for example, some patients are mainly tremor-based, and some patients are mainly rigid, and the medication is different. Treatment differs in different stages of Parkinson's, such as early or advanced. This requires the judgment of an experienced specialist, including necessary examination and evaluation.
3. Parkinson's disease is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disease. Patients should be prepared for life-long medication and long-term resistance. However, there are many influencing factors in clinical practice. Sometimes drugs can have a good effect, but sometimes the effect is greatly reduced.
4. It is necessary to conduct short-term drug efficacy evaluations by specialist physicians, and reasonably select the type and dosage of long-term drugs. The specialist first selects a drug based on the results of previous patients' medication and their characteristics. This drug may theoretically be suitable for a specific patient, but whether it is really effective and safe will only be known after the patient has taken the drug. At this time, when the patient takes the drug for the first time, a specialist can evaluate whether there is a curative effect and adverse reactions to determine whether the drug can be taken for a long time. This method is more accurate, scientific, and safer than the patients themselves feel.
5. During the course of treatment, many patients are afraid of the adverse reactions of the drug and do not take it according to the dosage prescribed by the doctor. In drug instructions, the adverse reactions of drugs are often described in great detail. After reading it, some patients are too worried about the adverse reactions of the drug, thinking that the adverse reactions mentioned in the instructions will occur. As a result, they reduced the dose on their own, and even basically did not take the medicine, which naturally could not control the disease.
6. There will be a dose adjustment period when you start taking Parkinson's drugs, during which the chance of adverse reactions will be higher. Some symptoms such as nausea or dizziness will gradually disappear with the medication symptoms. Of course, the symptoms of Parkinson's disease may also be exacerbated by the adjustment of the medication (such as the process of tapering one drug and gradually increasing the dose of another drug), and in most cases, the symptoms worsen short-lived. When severe side reactions, allergies, or significant deterioration of symptoms occur, you can no longer "persist on medication", and you should seek medical attention in time.
7. Parkinson's patients suffer from memory loss and confusion in thinking. Elderly patients often forget to take medicines, take the wrong medicines, or forget to take medicines and overdose. Therefore, the elderly should be accompanied by someone when taking medicines to help patients grasp the dosage and dosage. Medication time, so as not to forget or mistake.
8. Regarding the side effects of drugs, no matter how the dose of the drug is adjusted, the side effects are basically inevitable. If the patient is unbearable, they can consider using traditional Chinese medicine to continue to control Parkinson's symptoms. It is possible, ideally, to eliminate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, allowing the patient to return to a comfortable life and self-care ability.
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