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My wife, Cecily 77/20 was working as a payroll clerk when she came down with PD. She didn't really notice any particular symptoms, just sort of slowing down in her work, missing little things here and there, but no tremor etc. She felt something was wrong and consulted MD. He put her in hospital and a neurologist diagnosed PD. Some time later we went to a Movement Disorders Clinic. The head of the clinic said that he didn't think she had PD, took her off sinemet and had her return in 2 weeks. He then decided she did have PD, but said that he had never seen it so early. He administered a flock of special tests (gratis, because of the earliness). As time went on calling for adjustments of medication, it was obvious she did have PD. The progress has been very slow, thank Heaven. My question is this. I notice newbies coming on the forum in common, report that they had symptoms for varying periods before diagnosis and treatment started. Did they recognize the symptoms as PD and go into denial or didn't think of PD and just waited until symptoms developed to the point that they had to find out what's wrong?? If I get any answers to this I will try and give a report when I get enough to report. Bob Anibal [log in to unmask]