My wife is on mirapex for pd. She recently had deep brain stimulation surgery and her dr said to reduce her mirapex. Do not yet reduce rytary. I have reduced it from 3 tabs a day to 2 1/2 and now she is having trouble moving. I have been at this for 4 days now and not sure what else to do
Hi, Deep Brain Stimulation needs to be individualized. The frequency and strength of stimulation need to be gradually adjusted. As you reduce the medicine the doctors will increase the stimulation.  So reduce the medicine until she is comfortable. The symptoms are bound to increase as she's coming off medication. Also, to avoid the severe effects of medication with Chat Doctor.  To reduce the dose until she has symptoms but remains comfortable. The doctors can then readjust the stimulation until her symptoms disappear. Once that happens the dose can be reduced further and the cycle will progress until she continues to be symptomatic at the maximum permissible stimulation. A dose of medicine, usually small, may thereafter be needed continuously. I have tried to make it as simple as possible. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.