hi all At 11:20 1999/06/14 -0500, charlie wrote, in part: >...I disagree with Janet that you ought to consider dumping your MD >if he didn't know about that as a symptom of PD however. If he >is otherwise competent. it is a common although largely unwritten >about symptom that can and does occur... i don't think it's largely unwritten about there are over 100 pubmed studies going as far back as 1980 in the major neurological journals describing olfactory problems as an important symptom of pd [maybe one of the earliest indicators] i may have been a tad impatient in my reaction in re the neurologist; all the testing and scans that norma endured needlessly may have been ordered by someone else janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada a new voice http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ [log in to unmask]