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At 12:43 PM 7/31/97 -0400, you wrote: >i was diagnosed in 1988 at age 41, but was definitely feeling symptoms in >1985 at age 38 >which leads me to something i've been wondering about recently > > >i also gained the impression somewhere that younger parkies may be more >frequently able to relate a head injury or chemical exposure prior to onset >of symptoms than older parkies > >makes me wonder about 'trauma induced' pd as opposed to 'natural-aging' pd? > >[when i was first diagnosed, the neuro said that since pd's brain cell >deterioration seems to be part of the aging process, everyone would >eventually get pd, if they could only live long enough!] > >so if all these impressions of mine are right, i fit the bill perfectly: > >1. a head injury AND pesticide exposure in 1981, at age 34 >2. first 'slowness' symptoms in 1985, at age 38 >3. diagnosis in 1988, at age 41 >4. primary symptom: bradykinesia; virtually no tremour >5. other common symptoms absent: speech problems; constipation > I was dx in 1988 when I was 45. Mine was the bradykinesia type. I had significant pesticide exposure inmy preteen years. When I was about 12 years old I once painted the inside of ny grandfather's spray rig with red lead paint. That spray rig had sprayed everything from DDT to Sulpher Dioxide. I mean some real bad stuff. So in that one incident I surely got a snoot full of that bad stuff. If that wasn't enough my grandfather, my mother, an aunt on my mother's side, my grandfather's sister and her daughter were all parkies. So the chances of my getting PD were probably pretty great. Primary symptom: bradykinesia; virtually no tremor. Later as my requirement for meds went up so did dyskinesia. Then in August of 1995 I had a Pallidotomy. Yours and His David L. Moreland [log in to unmask] http://www.teleport.com/~davelm