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Hi Joyce, Don't mean to sound like a bitter female but I think history backs me up. Too many times the medical profession has told women that there was nothing to be done with their particular problems except live with them. So I say keep pushing the doctors to find something to give you relief. Maybe get your GN & neuro working together to figure it out. Nancy Walker [log in to unmask] >Hello Naomi: >some five years ago, I noticed a definite declination of my "normal" daily >me. That was at a time in my PD life that my days were nearly normal so a >real change was obvious. Now, my "normal" on days blend somewhat into the >"off" days but still there is a marked difference. > >Having said all that, my husband set up a video camera and we made a plan >to tape the same actions in the same room at the same time each day. > >when we finished one month ( X # of days frm P to P) and put it in graph >form, we realized that there was an absolute correlation of symptoms to my >cycle. So, again we did this for two more months and sure enough it was >almost identical. We called for a meeting with our neuro (Dr. Fahn at >CPMC) in NYC and when it was mentioned he seemed to be interested. When he >found out that we had this tape, he rushed the tape to the media lab in the >hospital and called us a few days later to say how much he appreciated seeing >it. It seems that at that time, I was one of his youngest female patients >(i was) 46 and he had noticed it or noone mentioned it to him. A month >later we received two calls, one from Chicago and one from Washington DC >telling us that they had seen the tapes and it was the most indicative piece >they had seen. > >As a sideline...the UK has a younger PD population and they knew about it. > >What to do was the question >NOTHING was the answer HORMONES were out of the question as they >interfered with the medicine >BE AWARE of your calender was the final final of this and we have made our >social or business plans accordingly since then. > >