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Barb (Mallut) - You bring up a good point - one which I almost included in my original response, except that I was holding my 9-month-old grandson on my lap at the time, and had more help typing than I could cope with. Now that he's in bed, I'd like to respond more fully to the following point: In a message dated 97-01-26 02:49:24 EST, you write: >It seems that the MD's I've gone to over the years either blame EVERYTHING on >the Parkinson's, or miss the connection by a mile. I know others having >major >chronic diseases often run into the same problem with their doctors. Kind of >a medical "can't see the forest for the trees" type of situation.... Dick has had exactly the same problem, and I'll bet most other "Parkies" have too. In his case, his tormentor is constant, sometimes incapacitating back pain. His GP refused to even address it, saying, "It's the Parkinson's." His neurologist, a highly respected PD specialist, simply said, "It's not the Parkinson's - you'll have to see your GP." Meanwhile, his back pain continued unabated, and he felt he had no place to turn. We were hoping that, if it helped nothing else, the pallidal stimulation would alleviate the back pain. It actually did for a month (an interesting phenomenon - wish we understood why) before the pain returned. Finally(!!!), last week his GP agreed to send him to the University of Ks Med Center for an evaluation by a back specialist