Dear David, My experence with DBS-STN was okay. the surgery took away my most bothersome symptom, painful dystonia involving the entire left side of my body from head to toe. the pallidotomy I had in 1998 was far superior in taking away most of my symptoms Each persons experience with PD and its medical and surgical treatments is different. I'm curious,David, how long have you had PD? when did you the pallidotomy? Diane ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn