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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. >