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To: Joan Dykstra, It sounds to me that your drug respnse is declining to - or already has declined - to the point that surgery is justified. I can only go by my experience. I can give an unqualified recommendation to Dr. Andres M. Lozano at the Toronto Western Hospital ((416) 603-6200) as a neurosurgeon. He is probably the leading functional and stereotactic neurosurgeon doing Parkinson's surgery today. THe secod edition of my "Neuosurgery for Parkinson's Disease " will be out in mid-May. Feel free to phone me at (416) 925-4814 Cheers, Bill ----- Original Message ----- // From: "Joan Dykstra" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 3:59 PM 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. >