Dopamine you take in a pill will not go to the right place in the brain. The caridopa/Levidopa you take goes the right place and is converted to Dopamine there.

As far as I know from studying: The L-dopa you should be getting for Parkinson’s is a dopamine replacement. If I understood everything correctly be careful one of the symptoms PD sufferers can do eventually is over drugging them- selves. . Plus, having too much dopamine can cause hallucinations.

A second opinion sounds like an excellent idea.

If his tremors got worse after stopping the Carbidopa/Levadopa, it was probably helping him.

He should talk with
The Neuro guy again. He may have just been thinking out loud. It would have been very unusual to have discontinued a medication without replacing it with something else.

I take Carbedopa/LEVODOPA and there are side effects to all of the medications that l take