I have spastic paraplegia.Will dopamine help me?

Hello doctor,

I have spastic paraplegia. Everything I have tried has not worked. I was told to try a medication called L-Dopa. Will this medication help me?

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

I have checked the symptoms due to deficiency of dopamine in the brain. I have most of the symptoms:

• Depression.

• Lack of pleasure. 

• Lacking the feeling of attachments or love.

• Distraction.

• Chronic boredom.

• Lack of satisfactory feeling.

• Fatigue.

• Oversleeping.

• Decrease in physical energy.

• Undesirability for exercise.

• Mental distractibility.

• To become solution oriented and not looking at the whole picture of a situation.

• Trouble in focusing.

• Less interest in relationship.

• Becoming socially withdrawn.

• Becoming apathetic.

• Short attention span.

• No balance.

Do all of these symptoms seem to present a very good possibility of deficiency of dopamine in my brain?

I also have a Baclofen pump, which has helped me only minimally.