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Maryse, I was so glad to see your email!!! Up until last summer our mother was managing her PD very well - at 76 she was able to take aerobics and yoga a couple times a week - then she injured her back (caretaking her 103 year old mother-in-law) and it's been one thing after another since then - she started slipping in a lot of different ways both physically and mentally. Then she injured her back again and had back surgery in January and her life really became a nightmare. Dementia, confusion, anxiety - very short fuse. She's always been a fighter, but she became a world class whiner. It's taken months to get her more or less squared away - she was put on several different meds to deal with all her troubles, and we couldn't discern what her condition really was from the ongoing and overlapping reactions to various pain pills and anti-anxiety/depressives. She's settled down a lot now, and although her physical and mental condition are both greatly improved, her life is completely different than it was a year ago. This article about Nonmotor Symptoms is full of info that hits the nail on the head and explains a lot for us. It's so hard to get all the info from the neurologist, although we like him and always put our concerns in writing to take to appointments to try to give him the full picture, there isn't enough time to just pick his brain. THANK YOU! Carol Troutman ----- Original Message ----- From: "M.Schild" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:40 AM Subject: Nonmotor Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease: Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment > interesting article on: > > http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/527867_1 > > Maryse > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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