Edith - As you know, I'm not the one with PD+, but I'll tell you what my love told me. He was raised on a farm where pesticides were used extensively. When he was in the service, he was hit in the back of the head which knocked him unconscious and gave him a concussion. He developed low blood sugar after he became a civilian and had to be hospitalized. This 6'2" man, who normally weighed 185 lbs., dropped down to 137. Maybe this will help a tiny bit in the research Best wishes, Jo Ann On Tue, 8 May 2001 19:14:24 -0700 "Edith S. Love" <[log in to unmask]> writes: >Dear List Family, > >Have you ever taken the time to think about how we got on this PD/PD+ >road >we travel? Have you ever wondered what illness, what accident, what >environmental cause brought us here? > >This is a List Family thing, and I need your help. I would like to >see how >many of us may have had the same things happen to us that might have >led us >on this path. I'm interested in numbers-not names, etc. I even have >my >med team interested in looking at the information which will go to the >List >Family first. > >For example: Have you ever had mono or an illness, even a childhood >disease with a very high fever? Have you ever been diagnosed with the >Epstein Barr Virus or had a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? At >some >point in your life, in an accident or a fall, etc., did you suffer >some >kind of head or spinal injury? Did something happen to your vision >before >you were diagnosed? Did you have poor balance as a child? What about >Restless Leg Syndrome? Consider, too, herbicides and pesticides. Did >you >work with or around them? >Did you suffer from any health problems because of them? Did you >suffer >from memory problems and/or depression?` > >What we're looking for is the possibility of common ground. Something >or >some things caused the dopamine to disappear. Everyone else is >researching. Why don't we? > >E of the headdress > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn