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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 -----Original Message----- From: Stan or Joan Snyder <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> 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 >[log in to unmask] ><http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm> >"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful." > Annette Funicello