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Dear E, I had mono when I was about twenty. At twenty-two or so I went over my bike's handlebars and got a concussion. At about thirty yrs I became a carpenter and stained miles of siding with an insecticide additive called Di-all (quite appropriate, don't you think). I did construction work for 17 years and was exposed to solvents, caulks, that awful glue the plumbers use, etc. My earliest symptom, a tremor in my left index finger, appeared years before I quit doing physical labor. I had to give that up at about age 47 and was diagnosed at about age 51. I will be 54 in July. Also, my father and one of his brothers also had PD. I think this is a great idea. I'll be looking forward to reading other's stories. Sue At 07:14 PM 5/8/2001 -0700, you wrote: >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