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How do you decide between the different oral longer acting levodopa medications?

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Neurology · UC San Diego

The question would be, why are you changing, and what are you changing from? (i.e., are one of these your initial agent, a change due to Sinemet side effects, or a change because of motor fluctuations?) The current theory on dopamine replacement is "smoother is better," so the longer (and lower) you...

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