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I hereby challenge messrs shulman, minegar and wiener How can three doctors make this assumption based on one woman's one pregnancy.? I am not three doctors, merely one woman, but i have had three pregnancies! The first i was symptomatic but undiagnosed I was diagnosed during the second And heavily medicated during the third. And far from aggravating my symptoms, the pregnancies may be the reason that PD is so (T G) slow moving in me 27 years and i am still walking unassisted, i've been taking sinemet for 17 years........ Plus, my experience would appear to be borne out by research carried out by Sheila Roy in England If these three doctors would like names dates and places, i can supply them. hilary blue (51/33/24) mother of jed, jane amy and jessica janet marie paterson wrote: > > The effect of pregnancy in Parkinson's disease. > > Pregnancy in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) is a rare occurrence. > > Previous reports based on retrospective analysis suggest that pregnancy may have a deleterious effect on PD. > > We describe the effects of pregnancy on the symptomatology of a 33-year-old woman with PD using quantitative neurologic and quality-of-life scales prepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum. > > During her pregnancy, she was only treated with carbidopa/levodopa. > > The pregnancy resulted in a normal full-term vaginal delivery of a healthy infant. > > Significant worsening of this patient's motor symptoms occurred during pregnancy without return to baseline at 15 months postpartum. > > Pregnancy may exacerbate PD and may have a long-term negative impact on the course of the illness. > > This report may assist physicians in the counseling of patients with young-onset PD who wish to consider pregnancy. > > Mov Disord 2000 Jan;15(1):132-5 > Shulman LM, Minagar A, Weiner WJ > Department of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33136, USA. > PMID: 10634252, UI: 20097718 > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ > > janet paterson > 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset > a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ > 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0