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Linda Kenney wrote: > > I have just signed onto this listing. I am 54 years old and was disagnosed > with PD approximately 4 years ago. I was devastated. I have always been > very healthy - no colds or flus and was very fit. I have exercised and > jogged for as long as I can remember and there is no history of PD in my > family. I am an Executive Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools which > has been a very stressful position at times. Always under deadlines with > long days and 10 things going at one time. I first noticed a tremor in my > left hand and then my left foot. I do not have tremors on my right side. > I have tried several different medications and have had difficult with all > of them - some that caused heart palpitations, etc. I am now taking > levodopa and permax. It has taken me approx. two months to adjust to this > with nausea, cramps, headaches, etc. etc. I do not like this new form of > living, but I must get used to it. Fatique is a major factor. I still > want to work as I find it fulfilling, but some days I can barely > concentrate on what I am doing. > > Depression seems to want to take over at times. That is why I have decided > to become part of this Exchange Network. I am interested in corresponding > with Young Onset (I still consider myself young to have this disease) > parkinson's patients. I would be happy to hear from anybody though. To be > honest - the future frightens me. I have had a hard time accepting what > has been dealt me. > > So long for now. > > Linda > > At 03:08 PM 30/12/99 -0800, you wrote: > >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 > > > ________________________________________________ > Linda Kenney, Executive Assistant > Lethbridge School District No. 51 > 433 - 15 Street South > Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 2Z5 > Ph. (403) 380-5301 > FAX (403) 327-4387 > ________________________________________________