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To ALL that wrote on tightness in chest: "The hunched over" in this letter got my attention. Julian is a lot like that as he says the other positions are not comfortable for him.He does not breathe properly and he does have anxiety disorder. Family doctor just put him on PAXIL. Since Julian is also a diabetic, we observed that his sugar with start of Paxil went up. Family doctor says to stay on Paxil and we will see.(There is no indication that Paxil should interfere with drugs that he is on for diabetes.) However, today, he got this tightness in the chest early morning when he was actually the most rested. It did go away after 2 hrs or so.It was first tightness of this kind. If you have been following our situation, we were to see the movement specialist June 20, 2002. However, we still cannot believe it, we got lucky and we will see this specialist TOMORROW, January 31. I will make a summary of the symptoms and make sure that we do not forget anything. Perhaps, Julian will get his very first PD medication tomorrow. He is so itchy to go on holidays, yet we do not even know how all these medications will be working for him. Wishes and desires as oppose to limitations put lots of stress on all of us. I just thought I let you know what we are up to. Thank you all, for your input. It is invaluable to us. Emily ----- Original Message ----- From: "Schaaf Angus / Meadow Creek Ranch" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:56 AM Subject: Re: Tightness in the chest > Emily, > > I had a similar problem for many years before I was DX w/ PD! The Dr's had > me on nitro patches and everything for over 10 yrs.Even after DX, it took > a trip to NPF web sie and an article by Dr Lieberman on the Autonomic > Nervous System ( 2 parts) to make the connection. > > I was breathing at normal rate, only taking very shallow breaths. I was > forgetting to take in full inspirations ..... now concentrating on this and > using an alerbuterol inhaler to open bronchial tubes has made a real > difference. If Julian sits a lot or sits "hunched over", this will also > interfere with full inspirations. Inow try to walk as much as I can ( when I > can) and concentrate on the breathing. On AM's like today when it is 10 > below, I wear a paper mask (Walmart hardware dept. ) to keep the cold air > from entering directly. No more chest pains,and no nitros. > > I was to the point that on a regular stress test, I was going into an MI > ..... cholesterol at 145 ..... and angiogram was great - Dr's never checked > volume of air, etc. They couldn't figure what was going on even with > tremors,and other symptoms since age 36!! > > Small editorial: > Realizing that we all react to this experience dfferently, the soluton could > be very simple and again no meds to disguise the real problem while masking > the symptoms ! The Dr's may practice, but we must work to help ourselves > .......Hope this helps! > > The Best to you folks in your search, > Drink upstream from the herd....... Rob > > > From: "Emily and Julian Brinac" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:05 AM > Subject: Tightness in the chest > > > > TO: ALL > > > > Does anyone experience tightness in the chest form time to time or on > regular basis? My husband has cardiogram done and chest x-ray. These were > normal. I wonder if this tightness is associated with PD? > > Emily > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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