Joyce, I don't know if you saw my post on menstrual-related fluctuations a few months ago. There was one report that Diamox dramatically reduced the effect; maybe you could ask your neuro to look it up in the local medical library, and see what he thinks: Factor S; Movement Disorders 1993:8:240-241 Cheers, Joe J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 3527 Cody Road Sherman Oaks CA 91403 On Sun, 14 Apr 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote: > Its funny that this subject comes up again after more than a year. > > Chuck realized that my PD symptoms were greatly exagerated and exasperated > during the five days before my period and again for two days during > mid-cycle. We filmed this over a period of five months to make sure and > then submitted this to Dr. Stanley Fahn. > During our talk with him, he mentioned that he had a much older patient list > and noone else ever mentioned it to him. He did hear of this from > researchers in the U>K> He was not inclined to add any hormones to my meds. > > He reviewed the films with his staff and a few weeks later we got some phone > calls from another PD researcher in Chicago who told us she had seen the tape > and confirmed that there were pre-menapausel with the same indications in her > area. > > Thats the last we heard of it until seeing this thread but noone has brought > this matter up for discussion since. > > SHOW OF HANDS. DO ANY OF YOU PRE-MENAPAUSEL GALS SUFFER THE SAME MONTHLY > SYMPTOMS?? > > joyce >