I, too, have always understood the hunched-over shuffling gait (that I now hear is called festination) to be a primary indicator of reasonably obvious. Parkinson's. Sally Sally Lattuca Turn of Phrase carefully crafted communication When the words sing...the ideas dance! Ph 734.995.1579 Fax 734.661.5237 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Moreland" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:33 AM Subject: festination > I never had the idea that Festination had to do with permax. when Ti took > permax, it had no effect on me, good or bad but I had Festination before , > during an after I was taking permax. I always thought that it had something > to do with the condition called Parkinson's Disease. It wasn't until i had > been a parkie for about five years that i experienced festination. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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