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A worthless article which tells a person who may have Parkinson's nothing. It presumes: 1. That a putative PWP knows how to distinguish between a PD Movement Disorder Specialist and an everyday Neurologist who likely knows just enough to be dangerous 2. That whatever is physically bothering the putative PWP is known or suspected by him/her to be a PD symptom. Mine started as most did, with tremor. I had no idea at that time that I might have a Disease let alone a Neurological disease. I went to my internist who knew enough to send me to a Neuro who gave me a drug (unfortunately, I don't remember it's name) which he said would halt tremor caused by Essential Tremor but not if caused by PD. It didn't halt the tremor so it wasn't ET. Then he gave me Sinemet and it halted the tremor so he ruled that I had PD in it's infant visible stages. So far, so good for a local Neuro. Then he prescribed 4 Sinemet 50/200 per day. What a foolish initial prescription. I had meanwhile joined this list and otherwise read myself silly (score one for the Internet), and discovered not only that the initial dose was too high but that it would be better to start on a Dopamine Agonist if it worked and I could tolerate it. I suggested that to my Neuro and he said OK, that's interesting, let's try it. Anyone hearing a lesson coming out of that story? By the way, the first thing I read was a book by a Dr. and his wife, an RN, (should I have said "a RN"), which discussed many diseases. Don't really remember the title....something like 'A prescription for Nutritional Healing". Whatever. I may even have written previously about this on the list. In any event, they said that PWP usually die after 7 years. That was my first exposure after diagnosis to anything written. Needless to say I went into a funk until I read more writings and discussed it with the Neuro. I then wrote an extremely angry letter to the Publisher and waddya know, the next edition of the book eliminated that statement. All the above suggesting that someone called 'Doctor' doesn't know it all and we have to be pro-active in our own health lives. This List helps accomplish that goal. Paul In a message dated 12/20/2009 2:00:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: healthtable.com/parkinsons/parkinsons-diagnosis-just-exactly-what-is-the-pro cess.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn