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I'm 44, and 6 years have slight parkinsonian simptoms, mainly stifness in
the right arm, speech difficulty, general slowness, but no tremor. The
progress is slow, but exists. My left side is normal. I was diagnosed with PD in 1995 and started take Sinemet CR.
Last year I have changed my neurologist, and the new one diagnosed me with MSA. Unfortunately he died, and culdn't finish the diagnosis, so it seems not sure.
I had CT scans in 1992 and 1995, MRI scans in 1995 and 1998, SPECT scans in 1995 and 1998, and PET scan , but there are nothing exact on the pictures. The latest MRI and the PET were made in USA, FL. in July 1998. I have seen there a movement disorder specialist, Dr N. Galvez, at Cleveland clinic Florida, who diagnosed me with striatonigral degeneration. Since than I take Mirapex in combination with L-dopa).
I was examined in Neurology Clinic SOTE Budapest, in October 1998. There was told me, that my disease is most likely common PD because of the good response to L-dopa. I had also an ENG-EMG test, which could't show any autonomic failor. They prescribed me Madopar 4x125 mg, and Mirapex 4x0,75 mg. I have high blood pressure too, take once a day 120 mg Isoptin SR (made by Knoll AG, Germany).
My condition is normal, but not good, and I confused, what I really have,
and how it will progress?
Hungarian doctors usually do not try to find an exact final diagnosis ( PD,
PD+, MSA ), because they say: the treatment(medications) is the same. But the future life perspectives are not the same, and I'm too young to wait,
doing nothing. I don't understand, what was the reson of thinking of
MSA.and SND....
I am the sales manager of the PC reseller company, and I sell Packard Bell products for big firms and the government. This job needs activity, good communicattion, and there is a lot of stress.