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Niki, It is good to hear from you. I am somebody's grandmother and we love our grandchildren. How wonderful that you are doing this research on behalf on your grandmother! Your grandmother sounds a very wise and sharp person. The more medication is not necessary the better. You will hear, I anticipate, from a number of members what would be the right approach to medication and the foods to prolong your grandmother's life span and help with the PD. I hope that she would see a Parkinson movement specialist (neurologist that specializes in PD), if she has not seen one. Many say that Parkinson is a designer disease and almost every person has certain things different, therefore different approach to medication. Keep in mind that what works for one may not work for another person. This is just a general answer to your inquiry. Take care. Emily ----- Original Message ----- From: "Niki Parrott" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:54 PM Subject: New Person > Hi. My name is Niki Parrott. I am a Graduate Student at Auburn University in > Alabama. I have just recently started trying to find out information on > Parkinson's. My grandmother was diagnosed with Parkinson's a few years ago. > She has done fairly well. We had problems with trying to get her to take any > medicine for a while. She is one of the old fashioned kinds that refuses to > even take Tylenol, so medication was not an option at that time. In the last > year and a half, we have convinced her that it would benefit her and she has > begun taking some medication (sorry I am not sure which ones).My reason for > wanting to research into Parkinson's is that she still wants to try to find > some more natural ways to help control it (in addition to medication. She is > interested in finding out if there are certain foods, vitamins, supplements, > etc. that would be beneficial/non- beneficial. Does anyone have any > suggestions? As I said, this a new area to me and I am slowly learning, so > any advice would be wonderful. Thank you. > Niki Parrott, Alabama > > > > > > Niki Parrott > Animal Breeding and Genetics-Beef Cattle > Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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