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At 04:59 PM 2000/03/27 -0500, Joan Dykstra <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >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. > hi joan check out that generous and courageous bunch the hole in the head gang for their surgery stories on my website under pienet/people do none of the other pd drugs help you? are you seeing a movement disorder specialist? janet janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0