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Katharina M.

Katharina M. is married to Luca M., who has Parkinson's disease. After the operation for deep brain stimulation, she notices manifold improvements in Luca M.'s symptoms. The disease and its acceptance is not always easy for her.

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Time of intake

Katharina M. reports that the timing of taking medication is important and has an influence on the effect.

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You have to wait for the medication, but just the medication was good, but the neurologist said it had to be taken at a certain time, very punctual, like a clock every two hours, every three hours, but not that it makes yoyos and spikes, and that was the risk. And a neurologist said, "Yeah, but if you eat, your stomach will absorb the food and not absorb the drug into your brain, it won't work." So there are favorable moments when the drug is not almost diluted or has no effect. But they don't tell us that so much at the beginning, we look and then when he tells us "but you take it daily at a certain time", my husband "yes more or less", and then he didn't say it has to be very linear because if you do peaks, at some point you have too much medication, then you have too little of it. So that's more difficult to manage than the surgery I think.

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