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I am a male, Nigerian (West Africa) and 36years of age. I came across the site in my search for some appreciation of my predicament. You will appreciate my position if you come to terms with the fact that medical research (and consequently, medicine) is not yet advanced in my part of the world and diagnosing PD in a young man may be asking for too much. I have been experiencing this strange symptoms (except the tremor), i.e, difficulty with movement, handwriting, slowness with initiating movement and especially poor balance and unstable working and have been enduring now for about 5 years largely for lack of the luxury of ideal medical care. Just 4 days ago, I was able to get a Physician to agree that I may be experiencing Parkinson's symptoms. He is still conducting checks and tests (which are crude if you ask me) like x-ray, blood tests, urine and just yesterday ECG. I am yet to see him after the ECG. Now I am eager to see a neurologist and start some form of medication, but these experts are not easy to come by here and when you do, they are not in tune with latest developments. It is a priviledge here to have internet access and our libraries contain very old stuff, etc, etc. Somebody even told me that I may be more current than my Doctor and believe me, I am probing the net. So much that I know within these few days that even though PD is not curable as yet, it could be managed. I also gather that Levodopa is the PD drug. When combined with Carbidopa (Sinemet), it reduces the long term side effects. I can afford the drugs but my Doctor seems to be taking his time and I am fast loosing my balance. Please I need your advise. Thank you, _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn