hi yet again i won't repeat your entertaining conversation here but bruce's comments 'it just snuck up on me' [very pd-ish] makes me even more convinced that the back pain is tied into your pd muscle rigidity and your apparent under-medication of l-dopa i'll betcha dollars to donuts it melts away once your brain gets more l-dopa from a sibling in pd rigidity not pd tremour aka sibling sherlock janet 51/10 [log in to unmask]