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THANK you, Hilary. I have a long-standing appointment with my regular family doctor on Thursday for a regular old annual exam; I shall ask him to read my post & then your response about stroke (no way could I explain this orally). At this point basically hope I DID have a stroke - it's an answer. -----Original Message----- From: Hilary Blue <[log in to unmask]> To: Bruce Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 6:27 AM Subject: Re: Requip reaction/ MRI >Bruce, > >A friend of mine , who wishes to remain nameless, recently had a whole bunch >of PD related(or so it seemed) things happen to her, Her voice suddenly almost >disappeared, she lost a lot of weight - which she could not afford to do, she >became much more dyskinesic, her eyelids drooped so that she had difficulty >seeing, and more I do not remember. Her neuro just prescribed more sinemet, >but it made no differenc. One weekend, she was at a family gathering and met a >young man who had recently married into her family, and was not aware of her >medical history. It turned out he had just graduated as a medical resident, >and he asked herif she minded telling him what her problems were - well to cut >a long story short, he suggested she had had a mild stroke! Subsequent testing >proved him right! Another example of Complacency and PD masking another >condition. And the fresh unbiased eye of the new doctor finding the truth. > >I don't mean to scare you, or to suggest that you may have had a stroke - but >maybe a new doctor who does not know your history, so does not come to the >examination with his mind already made up, may discover something quite simple >that may solve the problem?!?!? > >hiLary bLue > > > >Bruce Anderson wrote: >> >> 1. Has anyone had a bad reaction to Requip? I started on it, slowly, a >> month ago. I went t the full I mg dose three times a day from 3/4 mg 5 days >> ago. The day before yesterday my voice, which has been one of my biggest >> problems for a couple of years, suddenly got much worse - to the point >> where I am suddenly virtually unintelligible. Besides the dramatic change >> in my voice, I just feel out of sorts, kind of a sick feeling, although not >> at all dramatic. >> >> I have to say that I may have one of the PD+ diseases so none of you might >> be able to relate to my situation. A test in December eliminated PSP, >> Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, as a suspect but there are other >> candidates. None of the drugs work for me. I have tried Permax, Mirapex, >> Tasmar and now Requip. None has helped my inability to walk unaided and my >> terrible gait; my serious speech problem (I had Lee Silverman therapy about >> 9 months ago - it seemed to help at first but it's been downhill all the way >> for me up to this latest episode), my poor posture & back ache, as well as >> my now near blindness much of the time from blephrospasnm in both eyes. I >> don't have ON's & OFF's & no tremors. I do have some of the other PD >> symptoms, though. >> >> I am probably grasping at straws in hoping this is a reaction to Requip, but >> not being able to be understood at all now is very distressing - as is the >> possibility I don't even belong here with you folks [distressing to me >> anyway] >> >> 2. I am having an MRI on Tuesday. Like a dummy I didn't even ask my doctor >> what this is supposed to tell him. The prescription form says Rx MRI of the >> brain, without gadolinium, Dx atypical Parkinson;s Disease. Does anyone >> know if this will be at all definitive as to what I have? >> >> THANKS TO ANYONE WHO CAN SHED ANY LIGHT ON THESE 2 THINGS FOR ME!! >> B. Bruce Anderson (53, 5) >> Schooley's Mtn., NJ >> [log in to unmask] >