On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Barbara Mallut wrote: > AND I'm even MORE amazed that I accepted THAT as ENOUGH to base a diagnosis of > such life-impacting magnitude upon. Truth is, I was RELIEVED and even > grateful to at LAST be able to put a name on what had until then been called > everything from "creative imagination," "female problems," it's in your head," > <they should only KNOW, huh?>, Lupus, MS, and God-only-knows-what-else. Mmm... Yeah, it seems that many docs have this idiot notion that all women are hysterical and just get the symptoms, never the diseases... *sigh* 26 years with PD, you say? Eh... I know you aren't supposed to ask a lady about those things, but how old are you? :) (Since the doc hadn't heard about someone so young.) /John. (29/0)