it isn't -- i have textbook parkinson's. other ways i have id owe sin cattic aspects. i'm so sensitive to aldopa. over time, with a lot of patients, it's after it wears off it isn't as -- >> you have a tolerance to it? >> yeah. it's terrible discanisius. your experience is your experience. you can't fill a box that's created for it. you can't shrink it to squeeze into a parenthetic. i'm sure i have it. but what is it? >> it's straight forward. you have a particular part of the brain that helps us with motor skills, smooth muscle movements. the brain of someone with par kinson's disease isn't producing it. as things stand now, doctors only treat the symptoms with a pill that looks like this. it's the single most effective treatment to help the symptoms. what you have is the pill going into the bloodstream and suns quently, it goes to the brain. here is the problem. when the pill wears off, the symptoms come back. sometimes they are worse until the next pill is taken. you can develop a tolerance to the medication. there's help in trying to minimize that. think of it as a

parkinson's isn't -- in many ways, i have textbook parkinson's.n other ways, i have the idiosyncratic aspects to my experience. for example, i'm so tremendously sensitive to things. for a lot of times, the efficacy wears off. >> you get a tolerance for it. >> and it also comes with terrible diskinesia. but your experience is your experience. you can't push it in to fill a box, and you can't shrink it to squeeze it into a paranthetic notation that someone's made about it. it's your experience. i'm pretty sure that i have parkinson's, but what is parkinson's? >> medically speaking, parkinson's disease is pretty straightforward when you think about it. what you have is a particular part of the brain that produces a chemical called dopamine. helps with motor skills, smooth muscle movements. but the brain of someone with parkinson's disease isn't producing enough dopamine. why that happens exactly is anyone's guess, but the disease does get progressively worse of the as things stand right now, doctors can only treat the symptoms, typically with a pill