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Dementia is a all too common a side effect of PD drugs. Find out what he is on and how much . Check with the doctor yourself and explain the problem. Maybe between the two of you , you can brow beat him into going. Being a workaholic is not a good enough excuse! Been there and have done that. His health needs must come first.!Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elaine War" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:12 PM Subject: Forgetfulness > My boyfriend is in a high stress job which requires a tremendous amount of detailed concentration. As long as I have known him - about a year (he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's for about 8 years) he has been forgetful and I have no way of knowing how much was just him and how much can be attributed to Parkinson's. > > At the moment he is under extreme pressure as he is winding down his job - thankfully! I have begged him for the last few weeks to go and see his PD doc but he insists on waiting until he finishes the final project he is working on which will be next week (but that seems a lifetime away). There has been a definite deterioration in his condition recently but I was horrified today to find that he has no recollection of a fairly indepth conversation we had yesterday. He said if he thought hard enough it might come back to him. > > Does anyone have experience of this and if so do you think it is stress related or purely PD related and any advice on how I should handle this. Thank you. > > Elaine > my boyfriend is in a high stress job which requires a tremendous amount of detailed concentration. As long as I have known him - about a year (he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's for about 8 years) he has been forgetful and I have no way of knowing how much was just him and how much can be attributed to Parkinson's. > > At the moment he is under extreme pressure as he is winding down his job - thankfully! I have begged him for the last few weeks to go and see his PD doc but he insists on waiting until he finishes the final project he is working on which will be next week (but that seems a lifetime away). There has been a definite deterioration in his condition recently but I was horrified today to find that he has no recollection of a fairly indepth conversation we had yesterday. He said if he thought hard enough it might come back to him. > > Does anyone have experience of this and if so do you think it is stress related or purely PD related and any advice on how I should handle this. Thank you. > > Elaine > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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