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Hi Paul. PD is a disease of the CNS (Central Nervous System). It can therefore affect the muscles of the throat and the organs of speech. It can also affect the organs of smell. I suspcet that the throat soreness is coming from one of two causes: either you are straining your throat muscles by trying too hard to speak normally, or you have scratched the epiglottis, the little flap at the back of the throat that separates the esophagus (the food pipe) from the trachea (wind pipe) and prevents food being aspirated into the lungs/ The epiglottis can easily be scratched in PD, and can be a cause of throat pain. The organs of smell, the primary olfactory system which detects volatile chemicals, and the accessory olfactory system which detects fluid based chemicals. Hyposmia (a reduced ability to smell) is s common symptom of PD. The sense of taste is linked to the sense of smell, and any effect on one sense cam affect the other. Also "phantom smells" are a symptom of PD, where the PWP can "smell" a distinvt odour, but cannot identify it or discover the source. As far as I know, these symptoms are not curable; they seem to appear and dissapear at will; they will deteriorate over time. There is a system of voice training called the "Lee Silverman Voice Training Program" which has been said to help people with PD. Jim Slattery ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn