Hi, I am 60 and have recently been diagnosed with PD. During a physical in my 20's the doctor told me I had a spot on my lung and I must have had TB when I was young. I was never treated for it and it came as a complete surprise when he told me. I don't know if this counts for your study. Regards, Gary > > From: Connie <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 2002/10/01 Tue AM 11:24:17 EDT > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Link between PD and TB? > > I found out last week that one of the execs at my company is the Chair of the Pacific Parkinson's > Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. We sat down and chatted for a while last > Thursday about his involvement and my recent diagnosis. > > One of the interesting things which came out of that meeting was the discovery that his mother had > TB before she ended up with Parkinson's. Why is that interesting? Well, my uncle was hospitalized > with TB several years prior to the onset of his PD. My dad had a TB spot on his lung and he also > had a mild case of PD. And me, well I had to be treated for TB after having a positive test (due > to contracting it from one of my patients). > > The exec says he is going to approach Donald Calne about doing a study regarding a possible > correlation between PD and TB. I'm curious to know if any of you have had TB and/or have been > treated with anti-TB medications in the past. > > > Connie > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.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