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hi fatta you wrote: >I would just like to give my opinion on this matter, >as an individual looking from the outside of PD in >and having seen hundreds of patients undergo pallidotomy >and essentially regaining a life they thought was gone forever. >I tend to be one of those skeptics that shuns alternatives >which seem too good to be true, but this is one case where >I have seen the results for my self (As Thomas did). >Fatta i hope i didn't give the impression that i doubted the effectiveness of pallidotomy: it's been proven effective in reducing certain symptoms in certain patients particularly those who have trouble with symptomatic control using standard medical therapies your words "...regaining a life they thought was gone forever...." describe the emotional 'high' that pall-ees justifiably feel when they lose debilitating symptoms but that "forever" is still lurking in the background since they still have parkinson's disease and it is still progressing as an 'insider' profoundly affected by this game and its strategies i was concerned that claudia seemed to be considering surgery only a month or two after her PD diagnosis and when her symptoms are under control the only time i may have considered anything to do with pallidotomy "too good to be true" was when the marketing of it seemed to have little reference to the entire context of parkinson's disease and all of its potential treatments at the pubmed site as an example of what i mean by context, i found: references to parkinson's disease approx 6,000 references to pd surgery approx 800 references to pallidotomy approx 100 references to pallidotomy + dr.iacono approx 10 your cyber-sibling [nine years, scar-free, and salary-free to boot] janet janet [log in to unmask]