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I have a question re: early symptoms....

Has anyone experienced rapid, unexplained weight loss (or gain, I suppose)
and then at some point in the future been diagnosed with PD?

It seems to me that my dad gained a lot of weight maybe a couple of years
prior to being dx's.

And I have lost 35 pounds in a very short amount of time.  I used to  weigh
between 115 and 120.  Right now I think I am around 82.  I am  currently
wearing children's size 12 and it is way too big.  I have had all  kinds of tests
done - I have a 9-page blood report, all normal; they cannot find  anything
wrong with me and I don't have an other PD symptoms.  But, being  the paranoid
person that I am, I had to ask...

Meanwhile, I am desperately trying to gain weight, force feeding myself a
minimum of 2000 calories per day.  Last weekend, I was able to gain about 5
pounds and by Wednesday it was gone.

Imagine trying to find something suitable to wear to work when you are
nearly 50 years old in the CHILDREN'S department.  lol

Oh, and I am interviewing for jobs.  I had to go buy a skirt at the  school
uniform shop because that was the only place I could find one long enough  to
be appropriate.

oy.

Carrie, daughter of Michael, PD for much too  long

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