rabbid...
My step mother was diagnosed with it about 15 years ago.
She is now used as an "example" of how to successfully keep the symptoms at bay, by a doctor in Baltimore.
I'll check with her regarding medications and recommendations for doctors, but there are two things she does religiously that have helped her:
1. She eats "right". No junk food, lots of greens and takes a number of multi-vitamins.
2. EXCERCISE! Critically important. She walks about 2-3 miles a day, and works out on a treadmill and with weights (small ones obviously). She is fanatical about it. You can really tell if she misses her excercise on any given day...she shakes badly and has a hard time getting up etc.
It is a nasty bit of work Parkinsons...but it can be managed.