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Replying to your note of June3,1996. I am new to all of this internet. You refernce my "experiences" with PD. Was what you saw about a full page or just a paragraph or so? I will send the longer one just to be sure. In answer to your specific questions. Advanatages of my surgery outweigh disadvantages 1000 to 1. Just be sure you have complete confidence in and have researched your surgeon.How many has he performed? Complications? Results of surgery as far as improvement in symptoms. There are guide lines as far as Who is a candidate and ohter quakifications for the surgeon. If you don't hgave these and would like, let me know. I sent this yesterday but i did something wrong so I will try agDiagnosed in 1987 (Jim Stokes this will sound like you). I am now 64 years of age.Right before surgery I wa staking 6 1/2 50/200/Sinemet per day. Still had tremors. Every afternoon dyskensia started and made my whole body ache. Rigidity was also a moderate problem along with foot and leg cramps. All during 1995 Iwas accumulating all the info I could get on Pallidotomy and the doctors that performed the surgery. My symptoms seem to progress much faster starting in the spring of 95. The place I selected was Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles CA. The surgeon was Dr. Deane "Skip" Jacques. He and his associates had performed over 100 Pallidotomies at that time and had had no major complications. I was label an excellant candidate for the surgery because of my symptoms and otherwise pretty good health. The operation was Feb 28, 1996 at about 3:00 pm. I too was awake for the operation but remember very little of it. I had a full dinner at 7:00pm and was discharged the next morning at 9:00 am. I repeated many of the test I had prevously taken again that same morning.Most of these test were conducted by Dr. Oleg Kopyov. That same afternoon my wife and I took a walk and returned to Colorado the following day. >From my previous contact with the above two doctors I had complete confidencein the outcome of the operation. They fully expected the operation to make a major improvement in my symptoms. It is hard to believe but since the operation I have not had a tremor,no dyskinesia, and no rigidity. It is remarkable. My health is obviously not perfect. I get extremely tired very easilly. Also, even though I no longer have the rigidity I once had, I am apparently very weak. It takes alot of effort to get from my knees to an upright position. I also have minor cramping in my toes and legs. Overall, compared to before surgery, I am a new man. It is just hard to desce\ribe the difference in how I feel. I just hope th e tiring can be solved. If not, I still feel great by comparison. Still have not determined the right level of Sinemet. Like everyone else who has had successful surgery, I have great faith in the doctors that performed my surgery. I would provided any other information any one would like to have. I would also appreciate any additional information any has on post-surgery symptoms etc. Don Connell