Joan I think you migght be just a little bit confused about symtems of PD
and ALZ. I'll ck my source first,because like youu said I also have been
known to be wrong. I sure like your super market line. That is so gooood.
Shirley
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From: Stan or Joan Snyder <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Symptoms of PD


>Grace, they don't casll this the "snowflake disease" for nuthing! I t
>has to do, I suspect with every person's brain chemestry being
>different...therefore we all get PD at different times in our lives,
>with all sorts of varying symptoms and each react to meds in a different
>way. I think that you hit the nail on the head when you asked how can
>they be sure that it's  PD?   Well, sometimes they can't. I have a
>grilfriend who was dxed as mentally incompetent  for insisting that
>there was something wrong with her-despite drs. being unable t o come up
>w/ any reasons for  her. She ended up on the psych ward of a local
>hospital, doped beyond belief until someone came up, quite by accident,
>with the correct dxes. That is one of the reason's why we must be
>visible and vocal about our  disease-to let our friends and family and
>the lady in the framing store and the idiot (who like I used to) will
>stand behind me in the check out lane, rolling his eyes and tapdancing
>while I'm trying to write a check and get the money back into my
>pockedt-no time to recount the change. I look at him with one of my
>practiced grins and say: "You know, I used to hate people like me
>...until I became one. You'd better be careful because God sure has a
>sense of humour when it comes to teaching us lessons!!!"  Correct me, if
>I'm wrong (which I have beem known to be), but isn't PD like
>Alzeheimer's?  There is no one certain test for PD, I think that it's
>more of a process of elimination and waitng until thed symptoms more
>fully manifest themselves so that a diagnosis can be made more surely.
>Another way they use is your reaction to simemet. If it works-you can be
>pretty sure you got it. I took sinenmet for a year and a half
>beforefinally going to Mayo to be dxed. No surprise there-I figured that
>if it walked like PD & it quacked like PD then it must be PD! I hope
>this letter doesdn't confuse you all the more as I have been known to do
>that also!! Best of luck in
>your journey forward,   Joan
>--
>Joan E. Snyder    48/10
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