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This is a naive questionnaire that shows minimal understanding of the plight of PD patients. The disease is variable, i.e. from minute to minute the symptoms can change. From "on" to "off." The usual rules of pharmacology--about dose-response and time-action -- are not simply followed, either by the disease itself or the interaction of the underlying disease with the medications used to treat it, especially L-dopa and its agonists. So when the medication is working, the patient may be briefly "normal." When it is not working-- for some inexplicable reasons ranging from receptor suprasensitivity to having eaten protein for lunch--the patient has all or some of the problems listed. The real questions, however, are not Do you have the following [yes, of course] or how often [daily, cyclically, unpredictably] nor HOW BOTHERED or how disabled are you when you have the following [extremely bothered, wouldn't you be] but HOW MUCH GOOD TIME [in minutes per hr, or per dose or in percentage of time] do you experience on your roller coaster ride between rigidity and dyskinesia, and is that good time enough for you to function in some way... During the 15 minutes in an hour when I'm okay, I have a hard time remembering to take my medication on time so that I wont crash an hour later --I often think about the 'Arkansas traveler' of folksong fame, who didn't fix his leaky roof because he couldn't climb up and fix it in the rain and when asked why he didn't fix it in good weather, replied "My roof doesnt leak on a sunny day."