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Julie-Ann... I got every PD symptom that anybody with Parkinson's had - ones I read about online and those folks at my support group had - for the first 4 or 5 years (I've had the disease for almost 23 years and am now 55). I was SO susceptible to that, you'd find me with a new set of symptoms almost everyday! I even got some symptoms of a coupla-three other diseases too, for a short while, because I THOUGHT they were PD symptoms! When I FINALLY got my original diagnosis, and asked the neuro about this medley of symptoms, he enlightened me to what I was doing to myself. Within about 24 hours, I no longer had 9/10ths of the symptoms and haven't been bothered by most of 'em since then. BOY did I feel stupid! <blush> That said, I'll sometimes read about some symptoms here on the List, that I didn't know about before, and sure enough, the next thing ya know, I have it!! However, NOW I can talk myself right back out of it. Of course, I still get my own set of PD symptoms that crop up,driving me nutz, but them I try to work around if at all possible. Hope this is of some help to ya..... Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Julie-Ann & Andriya Sent: Saturday, June 20, 1998 12:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Some odd things are happening to me Gidday Group, Since my introduction a week or so ago, I was happy to revert to role as 'lurker'. There have, (as my subject time indicates), been some peculiar things happening to me just lately, so I wanted to run them past the group in the hope of gaining some information. I remain unmedicated, so these symptoms (if that is what they are) are not the result of some wierd reaction to drugs. *I am SO TIRED*.....this fatigue has been waxing and waing for a few years but the last few days have been horrible. Does anyone else feel this way?? If so what are your thoughts on the reasons. The tremor which is usually pretty mild, is now nearly as much on the left side as the right (which is the side it first started last December) I was under the impression (obviously misguided) that the tremor usually remained on one side for quite some time. Any thoughts?? My tongue gets 'tripped up' and sometimes I can't get the words from my brain to my tongue. I'd just love to hear your stories if you've been affected in the ways I've tried to discribe. I get concerned that I'm ascribing symptoms to PD, when may-be I'm suffering post traumatic stress from getting the diagnosis. My mind is going though all sorts of avenues to try and understand these 'things' that are happening to me. Thanks for your attention, Julie-Ann