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Right on Bill. I think we are privileged to have DR. CHRIS on the list. [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: William Harshaw <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 6:22 PM Subject: Re: surgery But NOT pallidotomy!!!! > Poor Chris has been dumped on by just about everybody for offering his > professional opinion - as distinct from our amateur opinions - on the > relative efficacy of pallidotomy, pallidal stimulation and STN stimulation > > My views on the topic are conditioned by my experience. When I had my > pallidotomy in Dec. '93, it was at the cutting edge - DBS had not yet been > invented. My results were highly satisfactory as reported in the Lancet. > > My DBS was pallidal stimulation even though I had, and still do, have an > electrode implanted in my STN. It was not hooked up because the test > stimulation of my STN produced severe dystonic contractions. > > I had the first DBS in North America, and it continues to be spectaclarly > successful. Chris' experience is backed up with clinical studies. My hat > goes off to him for tolerating us. > > Bill > , -----Original Message-----at > From: George J. Lussier <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sunday, October 03, 1999 6:26 PM > Subject: Re: surgery But NOT pallidotomy!!!!o > > > >Chris, > > I think I've read most of your previous postings and I certainly have > >read those that followed and I must admit that I tire of people who are as > >opinionated as you. I would argue that you have the right to say what you > >would but enough is enough. You don't have all the answers. > > When I had my 1st Pallidotomy back August '95 the List's wisdom was > that > >what ever decision I made was the correct one for me. The same was true > when > >I had my second in Sept '96. And I'm still going strong. If I had waited > any > >longer I would be dead,nuts or/and in a nursing home > > I currently know two people scheduled for brain surgery; one for a DBS > >and the other for a Pallidotomy. The DBS involves a 50 year old man with a > >history of a failed Pallidotomy and a 20 year history of PD. I believe that > >he has made the correct decision for him. The second involves a 48ish woman > >who also has 20 years of PD. The reason she chose a Pallidotomy was in > part > >based on the fact that the average time on the operating room table was > >about an hour and 20 minutes and another hour plus for the MRI etc whereas > >the DBS > >takes, what 16-18 hours? And a weeks hospitalization. This woman is > terrifed > >of the MRI, the plastic drapping and the surgery in general. So what does > >she do? I think she has made the correct decision for her. > > You haven't walked in my shoes so please be respectful. > > > > george Lussier > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >At 10:18 AM 9/30/99 +0200, you wrote: > >>> Ron, > >>> > >>> I can highly recommend neurosurgery for Parkinson's > >> > >>But NOT pallidotomy!!!! > >> > >>Chris > >> > >> > >I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad. > > LYNDON B. Johnson (about a speech by Richard M. Nixon) > >