Hi,
        I am 60 and have recently been diagnosed with PD.  During a physical in my 20's
the doctor told me I had a spot on my lung and I must have had TB when I was young.
I was never treated for it and it came as a complete surprise when he told me.
I don't know if this counts for your study.
Regards,
Gary
>
> From: Connie <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2002/10/01 Tue AM 11:24:17 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Link between PD and TB?
>
> I found out last week that one of the execs at my company is the Chair of the Pacific Parkinson's
> Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. We sat down and chatted for a while last
> Thursday about his involvement and my recent diagnosis.
>
> One of the interesting things which came out of that meeting was the discovery that his mother had
> TB before she ended up with Parkinson's. Why is that interesting? Well, my uncle was hospitalized
> with TB several years prior to the onset of his PD. My dad had a TB spot on his lung and he also
> had a mild case of PD. And me, well I had to be treated for TB after having a positive test (due
> to contracting it from one of my patients).
>
> The exec says he is going to approach Donald Calne about doing a study regarding a possible
> correlation between PD and TB. I'm curious to know if any of you have had TB and/or have been
> treated with anti-TB medications in the past.
>
>
> Connie
>
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