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----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Kleinmeyer <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 3:53 AM Subject: Re: Symptoms of PD ****************** greg I am not the only person who misses you :))) ************************************ > Hi Everyone, I'm back------- (SHIRLEY) I missed you all. Even Greg.HA!HA! I > really like this Lady.I'm going to have to start using her line when I'm in > a checkout lane. My Grand daughter is moving out on her own so it will be > just me and my dogs. 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 >