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My question to you is...what other antiparkinson medications have you tried? There are many others besides Cogentin (an anticholinergic which is considered to have only mild antiparkinson effects) and, quite honestly, any good neurosurgeon will insist on trials of these drugs prior to being accepted for surgery. If you want to learn about the other medications being used in the treatment of PD, I'd be happy to send you our materials. Jeanne Lee-Rosner PDF-Chicago ----- 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. >