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on 8/14/01 5:31 PM, myles at [log in to unmask] wrote: > Hi! My mother is 74 yo and has had Parkinson's for almost 16 years now. > We are in the Philippines. > > I was wondering? Has anyone ever heard of having the Parkinson's start from > the stomach? > > She also has scoliosis and osteoporosis to compound her Parkinson's problem. > And right now she has lost her sense of taste and smell. > > But her neuro did mention she has not heard of a case like my mom whose > rigidity starts at the abdomen. > > Doea any one know of anyone else? > Myles My PD+, which is parkinsons undefined still, 1/2 of my stomach works-- the right side however the left side of my stomach which is affected by the parkinsonian symptoms has diverticularosis (sp) ie cannot process and pass the food properly causing blow outs in the intestine which get infected and become very painful. I am assuming ( without medical confirmation or proof ) that the pd like symptoms MAY have started in my stomach as long as 30 years ago (exploritory surgery at that time revealed nothing wrong with my stomach although daily I went through many hours of unexplained excuriating morning pain in the stomach area (hence my refusal 99% of the time since then to eat any breakfeast)-- which I now am assuming was-- the beginning of my stomachs inability to process the food overnite properly at that time, I would doubt the Doctor looked for rigidity of the stomach muscle at that surgery time or even if it was there could identify it!). The diverticular disease surfaced 5 years ago about 1 year before the observed obvious external parkinsonian symptoms were identified. On the other hand I have increased sensitivity to both taste and smell! hence I assume the perplexities of identifying what type of disease I have. Don PD+ 52/4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn