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hi sibling! [keeping your identity hidden] At 14:34 1999/02/03 -0800, you wrote to me privately: >I'm hoping you'll take a minute and review what I've written I'm trying to >get feedback from people about my symptons. > >Anyway if you don't want to respond click the 'ol delete button now. > >I have started having 'seizures' and tremors in the last two months, >suddenly. They first manifested themselves during a very unpleasant plane >flight. They started with the right arm, then right leg, followed by the >left arm and leg, and finally my head. A CAT scan revealed nothing >out-of-the-norm. A follow-up EEG test with a hyper-ventilation test thrown >in caused a repeat performance. Two weeks or so went by and I started again, >an arm or leg, or both on one side, but not the entire body as before. 25 >times this happened this one day. Since this day I have had hand and arm >tremors, legs tremors and shaking, and now torsoe-neck-leg tremors with >associated difficulty in eating and swallowing. On one occasion when my legs >weren't doing real well I got "stuck" in the middle of our dining room. I >couldn't walk. And today, a few days later I'm having tremors that make my >body look like I'm riding in a truck down a bumpy road. No real stiffness >yet. >There's always motion of some sort to one degree or another. > >If any of this sounds familiar please let me know. i'm flattered that you ask i am not a medico just a nosey parkie with experience! the fact that this started suddenly two months ago jumps out at me pd manifests in two broad types - tremor and stiffness i have the stiffness type - virtually no tremor - so i could be mistaken here about your tremors but this does not sound like pd as i understand pd we lose dopamine producing cells gradually and keep truckin on until up to 80% are dead and gone after which we generally see symptoms develop very small and slow did anything happen to you just over 2 months ago? any lifestyle change, medication, diet, accident, chemical exposure??? diagnosing pd is a guessing / elimination game at best and it can be confused with several other conditions i think you'd best see a movement disorder clinic with lots of md specialists please keep me up to date on what you find out janet janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm [log in to unmask]