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hi. I am in my early 40's. I have poor motility/delayed gastric emptying in my stomach and intestines, therefore I get impacted extremely easily. I am on a low fiber pureed diet, very small meals throughout the day and early evening with the ever famous ensure with calcium. I try to keep weight on. my nurse writes down everything I eat and when. I wish I could eat regular or even pureed veggies daily. I tried it in the past, but ended up in the hospital ER. I have atypical PD 'leaning towards MSA'. Here are only 2 examples of why a person looses weight. There are all sorts of reasons so call the neuro or gastro. I have had a endoscopy, cat scans, colonscopy, xrays, darn near everything. Ask his neuro. and gastro about this please. I wouldn't want someone to be classified as alzheimers or as having dementia solely on age and/or having a neuro illness. Accepting illness is one thing, however, it could be something that can be modified. Maybe it is dementia or alzheimzers, don't know. Maybe it hurts when he eats? Maybe he is very sad or depressed? Maybe he gets fatigued chewing? Is his food pureed? does he drink Ensure? eat lots small meals or 3 larger ones ? nancy Schaaf Angus / Meadow Creek Ranch wrote: > > I dont think Parkinsons is normally associated with weight loss. My Mom has > poor appetite and eats poorly . finally we figured out she was succumbing > slowly to Alzheimers and had pretty much lost her sense of taste so nothing > much tasted good for her so why eat. Since we have gone to high protein > meals and stimulating through out the meal with constant questions about how > she like this or that and did she remember to try her salad and on and on, > she is improving. The questions dont bother her because she doesnt remember > them as you go through the meal and low and behold we are getting meals into > her quicker than ever and with the better nutrition whether she can taste it > or not she is doing better. Not a lot but she is better. > This may be similar to what is going on with your husband , a loss of taste > sensation and hence no interest in eating. Rob > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "NITA ANDRES" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:17 PM > Subject: weight loss > > > My husband has lost about 40 lbs in a year to a year and half. Is this > unusual PWPs? I have read all the books ( that I know about ) and found no > reference. I cannot get enough calories into him and he does eat well. We > have been to a nutritionist to no avail. > > He has no tremor at all. I have seen PWPs on TV ( M. ALi _ and he does not > appear to be skinny. Any help out there? > > > > Nita Andres CG David 83 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn