My Father has had Parkinoson's for over 5 years and over the last year the drugs have stopped workin.
He has been on a Amorphine Pump for the last 2 months and this allows him a good quality of comfort and mobility during the day.
He has recently been offered DBS (two wires) at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham , United Kingdom.
Although the Amorphine pump works well during the day, he is only allowed to keep it on for 12.5 hours max, and so at night time he relies on Sinmet Cr and suffers considerable discomfort.
His main problems at night are a painful tongue tremor, muscle rigidity and slowness of movement (has diffculty turning in bed).
Should he stick with the amorphine pump for now or is it only time before that fails and he needs DBS ? I look forward to hearing from other similar cases.
