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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