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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BDA47B.94E10730 Content-Type: text/plain Thanks for the info. I really haven't kept up with following the discussions here for a while, so I wasn't even that familiar with what PROPULSID is, but I still found the info useful and now I knoq to do some research on it or bring it up with my Neuro. I just read an interesting statistic in today's paper. It said that prescription medications now rank about fourth in the list of the leading causes of death in adults, just behind cancer, heart disease, and something else. That is scary to me, especially as I credit the drug Compazine as likely playing a role in doing much of the damage which led to my pd, as well as the fact that now due to this situation, I will be most likely be regularly taking drugs the rest of my life. The long term effects of this on other body organs (liver, kidneys, etc.) concerns me. An uncle of mine nearly died after a heart attack that he had, and it wasn't due to the heart attack, but rather to some sort of allergy to the drug that they gave him afterward. It's a fairly standard drug for this purpose, and the incidence of this sort of reaction is very rare (basically, all of his organs were systematically shutting down). It is so rare in fact that the hospital staff had never seen it, and really didn't know how to handle it very well. It also bothers me that since my own severe reaction to compazine, I have seen it freely given to others to treat mild nausea, etc., with what seems to me to be a very casual attitude, considering my own reaction. I have wanted to run over and yell, "Don't do it!", but didn't. Still, if prescription drugs are the cause of so many deaths (or other permanent physical problems), even more reason to pursue and put research into typically less harmful alternative treatments and/or preventative measures. Not that there aren't some alternative treatments too which can cause problems, but in general, my guess would be that since they are more focussed on helping the body to heal itself, rather than merely treating symptoms, the percentages of those adversely affected by alternative treatments would be far less. Not to mention the fact that since alot of alternative treatments have been around for many years (e.g., acupuncture), and have been used on many people over the years, there would be less heavy duty research required. Most of them too, due to their nature, would more suited to mainly human research, vs animal research, thus bypassing alot of the reasons (safety) drugs are tested on animals first. My ultimate goal is still to eventually beat this thing, not by high-tech treatments, altho' I'm not against using them when necessary, but by my own will to do so (mind/body, etc.). I'm stubborn, and since all I generally have heard that PD is incurable, fatal, etc., I simply must do the opposite, and prove them wrong. Frankly, I'm also worried about the long term effects of all of these drugs which I am now taking. I also hate the idea of being dependent on any sort of human creation, whether it's drugs, glasses, technology, etc. This might be naive, but I prefer the thought that if I really had to, I could get by by totally "natural" means, or perhaps a better way to put it would be by more naturally "friendly" means. 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