Hi! Nancy: I couldn't agree with you more! This tells me thaat we (both the doctors and the patients) have a lot to larn abojut tis recherous disease. For me it started as shoulder pain about three decades ago. It was dignozed as grout and several other things, I can't even remember now. Only when I started reaading about PD and its 'pleasures', I cameto realize tha I wa having PD forseveral decaades and didn't evn realize that until recently. I have seen 6 MDS so far. 3 for and 3 against PD! The first one I saw did not want to see me anymore since I sought a second opinion. I do not have much sympathy or admiration for the MDSs. They are mostly (not all) a bunch of people protecting themselves. Soon I realized that we are on our own in this fight. Raj ********** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn