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Ken: I am just curious, when to I graduate to Defensive Driving 102 or 201? I have waited too long (got involved), to take my Senimet and Permax. Not many side effects, and doing a little better. Still very dizzy, forgetful, hard to walk, starting Tai Chi tomorrow. Dr said it should loosen up the muscles. Maybe I can make a Kung-Fu movie afterwhile. Then I can have a chauffer in a long black limosene drive me places. At the grocery, I'll ride the shopping ride-em carts. How about a Rascal? I thought up this saying one day, I'm sure someone else may have thought of this one time but I wrote it down. "I Came, I Saw, I Chuckled". Good phrase for a PD, Bi-polar manic depressive. It was quite an electric show last night. Lost power due to "Power Surge". At least it was not a squirrel running across the wires and stepped on a Transformer. That is an image I really don't want in my mind. Ken, did you get real, I mean REAL forgetful in the early stages of PD. I seem to have lost a year maybe a year and a half. It is scarry to know part of your life is gone not to alcohol or illegal drugs but to something you haven't yet met. It has no name, because no one has put one on it. You just keep hearing, oh it is nothing to worry about. It was so bad I would forget to pick up my daughter at school. Driving to the Orthodonist, wrong turn, ended up in Michigan. 30 minutes from my home. I laugh, joke, and carry on because it scares me more than anything I have ever known. You may have, you may not have. I am being reduced to just a body of symptoms (some PD related, some med related). I know I'm going on but they left out so much, and I have to wait for another group of Drs. I go through them like Kleenex. I hear some talking about a diet? I have a feeling that much of what I eat isn't there. You seem to be a person shooting from the hip and that is what I need. Honest, truthful information that I can use. I have some reading but with the forgetfulness also came this thing that when I read (which I used to do great amounts of) I have no retention. Sometimes its like the words are slipping off the page. So much is changing, some I can handle, parts I don't understand. So I welcome your advice in these matters. I also, get very tired. I don't nap as much, but I do sit down and rest watching TV. I am working on a career in Law (Judge Judy, People's Court), running through a grocery store, getting Make-overs for everyone and bringing on Girl Gang Members. "Cops" will also come in handy with the Judgeship and the Simpson' s will be great for drawing. I am becoming a TV Veggie. I have not started on MTV. Thank God, but there are quite a few channels on the dish with music. New Age, Golden Oldies, 80's Hits, etc. Those are better. Well, as you can tell, I am on a manic high. Meds are somewhat out of whack. See ya later Gina 47/6 months (5 yrs of symptoms)