3. Take additional medication for your Parkinson’s disease
Another thing that people living with dyskinesia might not be aware of is the fact that taking additional medication to treat Parkinson’s disease could prove important in lessening the severity of the symptoms.
For example, it is thought that taking a medication known as a dopamine agonist could actually allow a doctor to reduce the prescribed levodopa dosage, which could obviously help to reduce the severity of some of the symptoms of dyskinesia.
Unlike the dyskinesia causing levodopa, which is converted to dopamine in the brain, dopamine agonists impersonate the actions of any naturally occurring dopamine.
These last 3 points all refer to playing around with the medication somewhat, which is obviously something that should never be taken lightly and something that should be undertaken following consultation with a doctor, but it is all useful information to know about dyskinesia, both for those directly affected and for their carers and the people that live with them.