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hi john and welcome back At 14:05 1998/12/12 -0500, you wrote: >Please allow me to introduce myself. >My name is John S. Lees, I am 55 years old and I have had >Pd for five years. My first symptoms appeared to the best >of my knowledge when I was 50 years old. I had trouble with >my left arm. I went to my family physician he checked me out >said he believed I has Pd, but said I would have to see a >Neuro to confirm his suspicions. Since then my life has been >about the same as most of yours. I still hold down a job in >a union shop and my employer knows I am sick ( It would be >hard to hide it from him). do you belong to a support group? do you have a family/friend support network around you? are your symptoms starting to interfere with your work? our lives are all unique and so are the ways we respond to the facts of the original diagnosis and to the ongoing 'progress' of pd >Since I recently discovered vitamin c >I had some real problems my meds. this sounds odd can you give us more details as to timing and quantities etc? >Now for some reason I have this anger in me that >I don't understand. I am not angry at any one or >any thing I am just angry, mad, hostile. If anyone >has a clue please drop me a line. first of all, you deserve points for reecognising what's going on! that's half the battle right there! dealing with a chronic disease involves grieving the perceived loss and the normal stages of grief [denial, bargaining, anger, depression, acceptance] have to be gone through sometime and somehow before we can move on with living our lives it sounds to me like some of your anger is [re-?] surfacing maybe due to the 'real problems' with meds that are now 'in your face' i have sent an article to you privately in re dealing with pd diagnosis which i have posted to the list several times i hope this helps your cyber-sibling janet janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada [log in to unmask]