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> From: Parkinson's Information Exchange On Behalf Of Heather Elizabeth Baird > Subject: Re: This $%*#! Fatigue > > Don't we all get weaker as we age? We don't expect to keep the > strenth we had when we were 20 forever, do we? We seem to have a > tendancy to blame everything on our Parkinsons, when much of it > could simply be because of aging? True, and we should be wary of attributing a symptom to "just my PD", for what could be a potentially more immediately life-threatening or disabling disorder. Nevertheless, I do think that if a symptom is *not* present, or less disabling, in "on" periods, and present or more disabling in "off" periods, it can reasonably be, if not directly attributable to PD, at least aggravated by it. I have, unfortunately, seen and heard of symptoms dismissed by health professionals as "not significant", or worse, as hypochondria, because they were not supported by their formal training. Jim Jim