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I'll try to keep this brief but I have a situation that I'm wondering if anyone else has dealt with. To explain: I am 59. I have had PD symptoms approx. 4 years prior to diagnosis. After running from neurologists to rheumatologist to sport's clinician to chiropractors over a 3 year period, I was finally dx'd with PD about 4 months ago. When the diagnosis came I was ,of course, in shock but one of the many things that ran through my mind was "Now, I can let down some. I have a name to a physical disorder that is real. I don't have to feel so guilty about being a little slower than everyone else around me. I have a reason for some occasional complaints about aches & pains. I don't have to feel so lazy when I need to take a nap". Well, now I find myself in a strange situation..."while I'm turning into Grandma Moses, my husband's turning into the Energizer Rabbit." He too has some health problems, high blood pressure & borderline diabetic. He has been controlling the diabetes with exercise & that's great but since my diagnosis, he seems to be flying around here like "Superman". He goes to the health club 3 days a week (his usual routine) but now has added his volleyball league on Monday night, goes to church to walk 3 mornings a week and just started Tuesday night basketball/volleyball. All the while, I'm feeling like a "schlump" because I don't always feel like making the church walking program. He accompanied me to my visit to my neuro this week. I am taking Requip which, at first, made me sleepy all the time. Now I'm also getting used to a new drug "Neurontin" which makes me feel like I've been on a 3 day drinking binge. Between the Requip, the Neurontin and the generalized fatigue that goes with PD, I'm having some frustrating days where I sleep a whole lot or just mope around "spaced out". Now, the crux of the problem is: My husband is sitting there listening while my neuro is telling me to keep active. That I must work through the pain. He uses the example that he walks 7 miles 3x's a week even when he doesn't feel like it. Ugh! I would like to pump him full of drugs till he can't see straight, tie a rope around one of his legs and insert a red hot poker into his left hip and ask him to demonstrate his walking program. Well, the long & short of the story is that along with the PD "label" does not come automatic permission to give up or let down. So...if anyone else has experienced a similar situation I'd like to hear how they handled it. P.S. I do not mean to make it sound as if my husband is not supportive and caring. He is! I know he wants the best for me & is probably using his activity as an inspiration & motivation for me. But, right now, it is backfiring & is just kind of making me feel like a deadbeat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn