To Mallory Dillon, Mallory, I am new to Parkinsons -- tentatively diagnosed in June/July and then started on Eldepryl - the generic form Selegiline twice daily. Initially did surprisingly well, but three or four months later see the tremor and shakiness returning on occasion. Still better than before the prescription. See the neurologist on 19th November. (Just to document my minimal involvement so far, and inform you of my lack of real knowledge so far.) Being new, Curious, and aprehensive, I have gone to a Parkinsons Seminar given by Dr. Rosenberg at Palms of Pasadena Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fl. He is not a neurologist, but has a long term interest in PD as his father eventually succumbed after being a patient for years. He was in Life Magazine in '68 or '69 when l-dopa was being studied and was one of the first in patient trials. He was eventually in nursing homes, but was tried on many of the medications as they became available. Anyway..........Dr. Rosenberg is very knowledgeable and genuinely interested. He may be able to help you. I then attended a Parkinsons Survey at Northside Hospital on 49th St. in St. Petersburg, Fl. where their rehab clinic has a speech therapist as well as physical therapist and occupational therapist, all of whom talked to me in October '99 and the physical therapist is petitioning my doctor for approval/referral so that I can have therapy for balance (three or four sessions to learn the exercises). The speech therapist agreed that I did not need speech therapy at this time. All of this leading up to the fact that when I first experienced the fatigue of undiagnosed PD, I did not realize that my inability to get up enough voice to answer the telephone at work, was indeed one of the symptoms. That has been alleviated to a great extent by the Eldepryl.......but You might be interested to hear that my resolution of the problem is to first take a deep breath, and then speak, pitching my voice lower to get better resonance. I know I am very wordy, but I am hoping that you may want to contact the two centers I mentioned as I am sure they would be interested. I would be interested in hearing from you as to how your research is going, and hope to hear from you on e-mail. You can reach me at [log in to unmask] and that would be better, as there are so many messages on this listserve that it is difficult wading through them to find a specific correspondent. I do read them all almost daily since I joined only a week ago. good luck to you.