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Barbara P., et al: Thank goodness, some hospitals are starting to integrate non-drug healing therapies with the drug and surgical options. I believe I saw a tv report that Columbia-Presbyterian is piloting something similar in at least some of their departments. If only I had had this kind of expertise available 3 years ago when I had a unique opportunity for one side of the coin In the late spring of 93, I had a week of Ayurveda massages for several hours a day--derived from the east, a team of therapists gave massages using different oils, coconut milk and heat. If I could have coordinated it with the medical side as they are proposing at Victoria Hospital, I think I might have made real progress. Instead, when I got home, a local neuro (not PD specialist) overreacted to my glowing healthy look and in a mutually bad move, took me off my meds ALL AT ONCE. I landed in a hospital, and the nervous neuro then proceeded to over-medicate me. Then he put me in a local Rehab Center (no one can figure out why I was there). I was finally put back on course by a University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) in-house team to whom I was ultimately referred. I'm trying again now to integrate massage into my regimen. For the past two or three months, I've had a massage therapist come to the house twice a week. She uses, she says, a variety of techniques. As of last Monday, another neuro in the PD group at KUMC upped my Elavil from 25 mg/night to 100 mg/night (yes, I'm doing it in increments) in order to treat my ongoing neck and throat pain. I have my fingers crossed! Barbara Blake-Krebs (56, dx 1984) [log in to unmask] Merriam KS November 2, 1996