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Over the week-end we hit rock-bottom so to speak. The pains in my husband's legs became so unbearable he could not walk. We were up hour on the hour at night with pain, shaking etc. Friday I called his old neurologist to ask for a stronger pain pill and an associate was on call...what I got was aleve...it didn't work. So today as soon as I could, I was on the phone to a new doctor. First I was told we would have to wait until the 25th & then as if a miracle, they called back and said they were rearranging the Dr's patients so could we come in at 2:00. I had planned the afternoon off of work as I knew I'd have to spend to much time on the phone calling to find a doctor & make other arrangements. The short of it all was, we went to see the neurologist who will by the way treat the pain in the legs...was knowledgeable about parkinson shaking & she looked so young I was sure she couldn't have had much experience...but I was impressed. We have begun to rearrange the taking of the meds; will have to do some physical therapy for three weeks, but hopefully he will be walking again soon. The doctor belongs to the Lake Cook Neurological Consultants group and at this point she is a blessing & a ray of hope. We are on a temporary pain program, but the hope is with the rearrangement of the meds, the pain will be aleviated somewhat too. Anyway, it's a start. I wanted you all to know. Joan