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You might want to check out www.youngparkinsons.com and www.yopa.org You'll quickly see that you're not alone. Stop by the youngparkinson's chat room around 10 PM EST. Greg -------Original Message------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network Date: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:11:12 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: JUST JOINED Hello All, I have recently been diagnosed with "Tremor Dominant PD" after believing for 3 years that I had an "Atypical Essential Tremor". As it turns out, all of the things that made my ET atypical are textbook symptoms of PD....so now I know. I just turned 44 a week and a half ago, I have a loving and supportive network of family and friends. A job that I really enjoy, and lots of down time to garden, cook and write. So PD is the only thing that I have to complain about. But I figure why bother complaining, because I won't make it go away, and it will just annoy everyone around me. I just started Mirapex ten days ago, beginning at 0.125mg three times a day, and now up to 0.25. So far I have had very little problem with side effects, just a little queasy every once in a while for a very brief time. I would be interested in your experience with Mirapex. I have been seeing an acupunturist for a few months, every 3 weeks or so (off schedule now because of the holidays), and taking some Chinese Herbs, which helped a great deal with my tremor initially. I have discontinued the herbs until I can coordinate with my various practitioners to be sure that they won't counteract each other, I have an appointment this afternoon to take care of this. My neuro is a movement disorder specialist at UCLA, and is very open to "alternative" therapies, one of which is "coenzyme Q10". CoQ10 has been in clinical trials and is believed to be effective in slowing down the progression of PD in the brain. Once I get settled in to my dose of Mirapex I am seriously considering CoQ10, even though it will be a considerable ($200 per month or so) expense, as it has yet to be approved by the FDA as a drug. Any information or guidance that you can share with me will be greatly appreciated John LA, CA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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