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Dear Parkinson Support Group: Yes, according to my introduction letter, I have had these symptoms for many years which are as follows: Weakness on my right side, weakness and heavy feeling in my chest, lightheadness, short of breath, etc. At this time, I was hospitalized as the doctor thought I was having a stroke. It is true that I had remissions now and then from these symptoms, but throughout the years I continued to have these same symptoms I had started with. Somehow or other, I would get these symptoms when active, but at rest I was doing OK. Upon waking up in the morning, I would feel fine, then after moving around I would start having the above symptoms. As I always told the doctor previously in recent years, I don't feel the symptoms I am having which are the same as the above symptoms, that it is my age 78 years old ,is the reason for my present problem. I started to have these symptoms when I was about 46 years old. Being that I said to myself, one has to live with what they have, I did nothing about it and did notice that these same symptoms were getting worse. I had to seek help by seeing several Neurologist and they were looking for Myasthenia, TIA, etc. I do feel that the last fall I had brought out the symptoms I still have which got worse, especially now losing balance and stability. My question is: Would the above symptoms that I had all of these years be the beginning of Parkinsons Disease? As I mentioned in my introduction letter, I had gone to a Neurologist out here in Israel and he gave me Sinemet which I responded to. Looking forward to hearing from you. My warmest blessings, Florence Frankel [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn