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Geoff: >1. Has anyone diagnosed with PD, NEVER taken any prescribed medication . . . >and if so, how rapid was their deterioration. Also, were the symptoms as bad, >or worse, than the increasingly severe side-effects produced by the >medication (whatever this may have been, as used by others?); It is not possible to make a valid comparison between the disease progression between those who take medication and those who do not. At best a large scale trial would be needed and even then the results could be questionable. There is anecdotal evidence that long term use of dopamine changes the body response but if there are valid effects they are not well researched. The answer will only emerge when the causes of PD are determined. At the present time the causes and the progression of the disease are only poorly or not at all understood. K. F. Etzold cg Carline ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn