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Dear list members, Allow me to introduce myself. I am Carol Horner (55) and married to my husband almost 34 years. He is 74 and has had PD 21 years. He was able to continue working almost till 65. At that time, our youngest child was still in high school and before he was finished my mother came to live with us because of poor health. She required varying degrees of care for the next seven years until her death last fall. I bet some of you can almost guess what has happened now that some of our responsibilities have lightened. Yes, the Parkinson's seems to be delighting in its timing of greatly worsening conditions. But we, like so many of you, are thankful for many things. I do have one question for any who may be able comment. For about two years I have noticed that when things got really bad, and that included a 4-week hospital stay (2 of it in the rehab dept.) they were precipitated and/or concurrent with bowel problems. The doctors look askance at me when I tell them this. But we have observed this time and time again. I have read some of your discussion on constipation which my son sent me some months ago before I got my webTV last month. So what to do about the constipation is not my question. What I would like to know is if others have seen such a direct correlation between poor elimination and drastic worsening of symptoms? Here, getting one thing under control has even seemed to turn the clock back on the disease five years. I apologize for such an inelegant subject for my first posting. (But I know all of you can handle it.) If anyone is more comfortable writing directly to me, that is fine too. Thank you all so much, Carol Horner [log in to unmask]