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My experience was slightly different. I was diagnozed with hypothyroidism and started taking synthroid. This eliminated my fatigue for a while. But, my pain took over my attention. After a few years I was diagnozed with PD. As a hindsight, I now strongly believe that if I had controlled my pain early enough, I would have slowed the prgression of PD. Raj ********* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Siegel" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:19 PM Subject: Re: Focus Needed... Pain & PD > I see some commonalities between your wife's experience and my > husband's, things that may or may not be coincidence. > > You wrote: > > "Does anyone else have any information that draws any correlation > between > inflammation, autoimmune disorders and PD? ... The first is > where the Thyroid is attacked by the autoimmune system eventually > causing it > to underperform." > > My husband has recently developed a goiter. That was what eventually led > me to diagnose his PD. After researching it and other symptoms on the > web, I got the diagnoses down to hyperthyroidism or PD. The thyroid > doctor said all was normal, that's when I knew it was PD. He said they > don't know the cause of the goiter. Rich still has it, some days it is > larger than other days. So far, we can't determine what affects it. > > > You wrote: > "A great side effect during the course of treatment was an almost > total elimination of her asthma symptoms (reduction of inflammation in > lungs). Since we have stopped the steroids it seems she is now > experiencing > more pain." > > Rich had asthma as a child, and has in the past used steroids. He hasn't > had problems with asthma in years though. > > Wendy > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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