On Wed 23 Apr, Richard Doyle wrote: > snip > > I have tightness around my neck like a band being pulled tight -- then this > feeling moves up to my head, squeezing my head tight. This makes my vision > blurry. My lower ribs also feel like there's a band tightening. My heart > valve then thumps so loudly that it scares the heck out of me. When I was > taking the Permax, all of this was painful. Then I stopped the Permax, and > the symptoms went away. Now, much to my dismay, they're back, but they're > not painful yet. > > Any ideas out there? > > Hello Richard, I have tried to visualise some way that Parkinson's could contreibute to your problem, but I can't. It seems more likely to me that the main contributor is likely to be your cardio-vascular system. -- Brian Collins <[log in to unmask]>