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Thanks Doug for your response. It sounds like your mother and my father had similar experiences in slow progression. I will certainly try the ginger for dizziness. Did your mothers nuero suggest that this is related to disease? Shamus -----Original Message----- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Doug McCorkle Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:26 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Are you dizzy a lot of the time? "Shamus McLaughlin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote (in part): > One of my symptoms is lightheated and dizziness. Hi Shamus, My mother's neuro (movement disorders specialist) suggested that she try taking ginger (as ginger ale, ginger snaps, etc.) for her dizzy spells. He didn't cite any hard research on ginger's use for dizzyness, but said that its benefits in fighting nausea had been demonstrated and that there was some anecdotal evidence that it might help dizzyness as well. Mom started taking ginger tea every morning (about 1/2 cubic inch of ginger root sliced thin and brought to the boil in about 1 pint of water), and claimed it helped her dizzyness/lightheadedness. > Another interesting note is that my father was diagnosed with > Parkinson when he was in his 40's (early onset) but he is still > alive at 77. Some people say that is impossible that he really > had the disease. He is alive at 77, still taking sinemet but > is suffering dimentia. Mom had symptoms at age 40 (diagnosis at 42), will be 73 next month, and is in good health (though she's bed/wheelchair bound now), so I wouldn't call your father's condition "impossible" :-) My best to you both, Doug __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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