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Hi Kathie..... I've had PD for over 25 years (and YES - there IS life after Parkinson's! Ya just gotta be creative to get the most outta it) and am now 57. With only right side involvement for the first 18 years, when I had a unilateral pallidotomy (brain surgery on one side of the brain and literally a rebirth for me) I'd just started to experience symptoms on the other side. The surgery stopped external symptoms on the right side completely (as in I still have none on that side, and it's now been 6 years since the pallidotomy), and seemed to give me a break on the other side for 3 additional years. Today I DO have (mostly annoying, but occasionally real rough) symptoms but I KNOW they'd have been MUCH MUCH worse had I not had that surgery. Hang in there, m'dear.... Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Kathie J Creveling <[log in to unmask]> : [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thursday, December 30, 1999 1:20 PM Subject: RIGHT SIDE/LEFT SIDE >I have recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's. I have a very obvious right >side body tremor. I am being sent to yet another neurologist due to the fact >that my left side seems to have little to no tremor as yet. I have had a few >full body tremors recently that resulted in my cutting my thumb and needing >stitches. My question is does this happen to others any? Can on have >Parkinson's on one side predominately and not yet show signs on the other >side? My possible origin of this may have come from a defective pulse >generator implant that threw me into aprox. six weeks of seizures and falls. >I have no memory of this time, only of what has been told to me. If anyone >knows of how I could have one side very active and the other not, I would >appreciate information. Thank You > >Kathie and Dave