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It is a very large part of my husband's parkinsons. I know those were the first symptoms we noticed. Stiffening, arthritis like conditions in the shoulders and the knees and muscles just above the knees Norma Dikeman Janice Morgan wrote: > Hi all, > I have been having trouble getting up from a squatted position on the floor, > I need to get on hands and knees and hold onto some furniture to get up. My > knees and leg muscles are hurting and cramping it is my thigh muscles that > hurt. I called my nuro today and he is out on vacation but another nuro said > it had nothing to do with my PD. I feel that they are wrong. I was DX in > 1997, started to run and do yoga after that was able to run 6 miles aday no > problem. Then it started getting harder to run and I would be all shaky for > one and a half hours of yoga so stopped both. I have tried to run but pay > for it later in the day. My feet drag on the floor for I can not pick them > up to walk. So my question to you all is the sore knees and leg muscles go > alone with this PD or not. I feel it does, I take .5 mg of Requip three > times a day and two Sinemet 25/100 CR two times a day and feel that I must > increases my meds. nuro did want to increases it six months ago but I said > no would work with it. I will be seeing him some time in Sept or later. > Thanks Janice > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn -- http://nordike.homestead.com/NordikeHome.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn