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This is for Joe, regarding his sudden crying. Here is a description of my own emotional reactions:

I gradually became aware that sometimes when speaking to a group or a Sunday School class, my voice and throat would suddenly and unexpectedly choke up with emotion, even though I didn’t feel emotional otherwise. I eventually noted that the c…[Read more]

Thanks Mary Beth for the reply.  It is nice to know I’m not alone with these revolving symptoms.

Hi Stuart  I was wondering if your doctor acknowledged night sweats was one of your symptoms?   I ask this because I had night sweats really bad about 20 years ago.  They were intermittent, but several times a month, for a couple of years.  That myste…[Read more]

Hi Jennifer

I am that October gentlemen.

I basically have been told I have slow and stiff Parkinsonism (Likely Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease.  A little hedge there in a definitive diagnosis that is slowly evaporating with the passage of time).  I really never had a tremor.  First symptoms were my body seemingly forgetting how to walk without ha…[Read more]

Hi Jean

I did feel relief to start with knowing what is was I had but……..then the demons started entering my head, how quickly will it progress, what type of PD did I have? etc

it took me about a year to get my head around everything and seeing my neurologist every 6 months really helps as he’s very positive. Since my diagnosis in 2016 my…[Read more]

Gail –

Do you think part of this struggle could be due to the legalization of it all? Until it’s federally legal, it’ll be impossible to provide standards that exist across the board (in terms of strength/dosage/consistency etc)? You make excellent points.

Jennifer-

I recently had the chance to go to one of my Dad’s neurology appointments. He expressed concern at the idea of continuously increasing his dosages. He is in it for the long run, and doesn’t love the idea of taking tons of pills as he gets older. I asked his doctor if your body becomes resistant to sinemet. And she explained that, no,…[Read more]

Dan,

I recently got a bottle of CBD oil from Taspen’s Organic Healing Products, near my home. They’re a Colorado-based company that lives and breathes CBD. After telling them that I suffer from tendinitis (as a rock climber) they had many helpful suggestions. And they helped me understand that some products contain higher CBD levels, which can…[Read more]

Stuart,

I find this misdiagnosis part of your post very interesting. My Dad has Ulcerative Colitis and was diagnosed with PD in 2013. And I’ve always suspected that it’s not a coincidence that he has both. So I’ve done some research to see if the gut has been linked to PD, and it turns out that we are 1.7 times more likely to experience PD if we…[Read more]

Duane,

I’m not sure that there is a normal progression. But I can tell you that my Dad (diagnosed in 2013) experienced many of the same symptoms. He first noticed his sense of smell too. From what I’ve been able to understand, it seems like everyone experiences PD a little bit differently. And there was some disagreement among my Dad’s doctors…[Read more]

Your safest bet is a medication (pharmacological or naturopathic) that not only works, but has been produced so that you get the exact same bioactive component in each dose, and has been tested to see what the safe dose range is, and also evaluated for both long and short term side effects, as well as interactions with other medications.…[Read more]