I've seen a couple of articles lately about the new DBS surgery where the device is self-adjusting. It is supposed to more effective. https://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/news/pilot-stud...

There is also the option of ultra-sound. It is being done in a few hospitals in the US.

Pilot study: Adaptive DBS outperforms standard DBS as Parkinson's...

https://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/news/pilot-study-adaptive-dbs-standard-dbs-parkinsons-treatment/?utm_source=PAR&utm_campaign=feaf86f739-Email_ENL_US_PAR&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_62dd4fb5e3-feaf86f739-75051697

Now that it has been a couple of years since my DBS surgery I see my neurologist every few months and he adjusts it then. He has showed me how to do it myself but I am afraid to try for fear of messing things up I do enough of that with my laptop DBS Surgery was worth having though even with my personal adjustment phobia.,

I had DBS surgery in 2015. I went often at first till we worked out what settings were best and since then I go a few times a year. Sometimes I go more often if there’s a significant change in symptoms or obvious disease progression and we need to make adjustments to compensate.

Surgery was scary but it was entirely worth it for me. I was able to cut my meds in half and that really helped with the dyskinesias I was experiencing. I also had sharp on/off symptom swings and that is practically gone after surgery.

Hope this helps.

bean...of all the possible ways of treating PD, this, to me at this time, is the scariest 😫...🤠

Thanks Colleen, hope you are doing well. Thanks for the birthday wishes you have a nice day. Bean