Your consultant or neurologist will be the best person to advise you. It is important that anyone considering surgery discusses any questions and concerns they may have with a neuro-surgeon, you may also want to discuss the statistics of how many operations the surgeon has performed and the results that have been achieved.
Surgery is mainly used to treat people with advanced Parkinson’s who are finding that medication does not offer the same level of symptom relief as it used to and for those who have medication-resistant symptoms. A neurologist will consider many factors before determining if a patient is a good candidate, including their symptom control, their responsiveness to levodopa and their age.
