I am 62 10 years diagnosed with PD.
Retired last year.
Meds 1 50/200 extended release carbidopa levodopa and 1 25/100 carbidopa levodopa every 4 hours 5 times a day. 1 6mg requip 24 hour and 1 azilect 1 time a day. Have been on this regiment for 4 months.
1 200 mg ibuprofen 2 times a day. 2 capsules of fish oil a day
Exercise
Crossfit 5 or 6 days a week.
50 push ups a day
Bike 15 miles a week average 1 hour.
Walk 1 mile a day
Side effects
got to go do something feeling (restless)
Moody late in the day.
Problems
Hands get slow and stiff last 30 minutes of 4 hour cycle but does not happen if I am busy
Sleep but has improved the last two weeks to 6 hours a night
Good things
Go all day.
Smell has improve
Taste has improved
Small set back
Hurt my back digging a (2.5 hours non stop) 55 foot long 1.5 feet deep ditch for my brothers water line but am almost okay today a little stiff in lower back. Still work out but a little less intense.
All and all i am improving day to day and am better today than 10 years ago.
I started Crossfit January of 2015.
Keeping PD at bay.
Kicking PD's butt
Bailey