Just remember to tell Anaesthetest you have PD as we can't have Maxalon or Stemetil they are an antiemetic for nausea and vomiting.

Let them know you have PD. I have found I am harder to wake up after surgery.

I had surgery last February and didn't have any problems compared to other surgeries years ago.

My wife had hip surgery earlier this year. She was sedated with opioids afterwards for pain. After a couple of weeks of this, there was some cognitive problems. She has been in speech therapy for months and there is improvement now. Be wary of anesthesia and pain meds.

@A MyParkinsonsTeam Member,
Hi, I was diagnosed with PD in Feb of 2016. At that time I had already been in conversation with a plastic surgeon about having a breast reduction in the hope it would ease my severe back pain.
After I was diagnosed with PD, I asked both my surgeon & my neurologist if it was still alright to have the surgery; both said yes. I had the surgery in July of last year and I did not experience any quickening or intensification of the PD at all.
My father had PD for over 16 years and toward the end of his life, when, of course, his PD was at its peak, he had back surgery. It was hard to say for sure, but the surgery did not seem to exacerbate his PD ~ but, as I said, his PD was peaking and so it was hard to determine exact correlations at that point.
I think that if you trust your physicians in general to help you live with your PD, you can trust them to be competent & honest with you on this issue, as well.

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