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Dear List Family.... I definitely agree with Bob G. about checking out famed, maverick neurosurgeon, movement disorder specialist, pain management, Robert Iacono, at pallidotomy.com. Dr. Iacono lives and works out of Redlands, California, and works out of famed Linda University Medical Center Hospital. Dr Iacono assisted Stanford University Hospital's neurosurgeon, Dr. Gary Heit (who'd the working under a fellowship at Loma Linda for the four months preceding my initial original was Dr. Heit's 40ith pallidotomy and Dr. Iacono's 300th pallidotomy, making him and his movement disorder team to br one the most saught after neurlsurgeons, available to those of us Parkies needing surgery to to curb the disease, if not cure it. By the way, Dr. Iacono operates on not only on those who are getting their first pallidotomy, but he ALSO has RE-done, and surgectly CORRECTS older pallidomies performed on PD sufferers years after their original surgery, renewing the quality of life for SOOO many individuals - myself inclluded. Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] rom: Bob Garrick <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, March 27, 2000 6:01 PM Subject: Re: Surgery for PD? >Please check out Dr. Iacono at pallidotomy.com >bob > >> From: Joan Dykstra <[log in to unmask]> >> Reply-To: "Parkinson's Information Exchange Network" >> <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:59:06 -0500 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Surgery for PD? >> >> Hello Friends - >> I am so envious of you who are so capable of writing regularly on this >> list, and I appreciate you doing it. Maybe someday I, too, will find >> something that works well enough for me to allow me to be helpful to someone, >> too. My tremor is on both sides now and no medicine seems to help much. >> Cogentin slows it down a little, but it takes my memory away. When I take >> Cogentin I can't finish sentences. I can't even read sentences. When I get >> to the end of the sentence I can't remember the first of the sentence. I'm >> on no meds at the moment and that allows me to think, but the typing is quite >> a challenge and my muscles ache from all the shaking. I'm hoping there >> might be a surgery that would be helpful without being damaging. Is anyone >> doing the electrical stimulation of the thalamus on both sides? Where is the >> preferable place to go? Who are the preferable surgeons to go to? I am open >> to anyplace. We live in the South Pacific, but are willing to travel. Any >> ideas? >> Joan 59 yo, diagnosed 48 yo. >>