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hi all At 08:53 1999/06/26 EDT, patricia wrote: >Fatique is a major symtom, why do I think that will change? 17 years! >Eek! In five years I'm showing the down side of this disease in all its >glory (there is an up side??)... sure there's an upside it could have been flesh-eating-bacteria!! compared to lots of other 'diseases' pd is a relative cake-walk >You didn't mention constipation, or didn't you want to. >Horay for prunes and Bran flakes-I suppose that doesn't >work after awhile too... i was just using the info that hilary gave me maybe it's not a problem for her it isn't for me >What do you do for depression?... i've been on prozac since my cd was diagnosed in 1990 after trying a couple of other anti-depressants prozac was the one that finally made the cloud lift i started out on 20 mg per day and then it was bumped up to 40 per day during stressful periods and then after several years and feeling like it wasn't 'working' any more and after considering an alternative it was increased to 60 mg per day which has worked just fine and which has kept on working [for me at least] all my past messages about my cd adventures are posted in my website in the 'my pienet words' section, usually entitled 'perceptions ...' imho and according to press reports cd is chronically under diagnosed and under treated more ignorance? maybe... probably... more toxic shame? maybe... probably... >I am naturally drawn to tears when I think how hopeless this all is, >yes I try to think positively & am thankful for what I do have, >but get over-whelmed by the nastiness of it all in my fumbling moments >of previously easy tasks. yikes your words speak to me so clearly of the melancholy murk and the gloomy glasses of clinical depression: "why do i think that will change?" "there is an upside?" "i suppose that doesn't work after awhile too" "i am naturally drawn to tears" "how hopeless this all is" "over-whelmed by the nastiness of it all" maybe you are under-cd-medicated? have you taken the 'beck depression inventory' lately? it's at: <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/wordsmy/post1997/971031a.html> when the murk finally gets lifted pried off with one gurrt big crowbar you will be shocked and amazed and delighted by the new view through crispy clean sparkling glasses trust me janet ps besides which if you are under-levodopa-medicated you are feeling lousy physically which will only add to the cd slide 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]