Bruce Closser

My neurologist is 450 miles away at the University of Michigan. I see him every six months. Before COVID, both semi-annual visits were in person, but during COVID they changed to tele-visits. These virtual appointments actually worked quite well, so, post-COVID, we decided that from then on we would do one in-person visit and one tele-visit. I’m…[Read more]

My wife was a great sex partner. However, the first PD-related sexual problem we encountered was mine. For the first time in my life I experienced erectile dysfunction (ED). Our neurologist told me that unfortunately, this is a common effect of PD, but that it usually responded well to conventional treatment.

I’m going to try breaking it up into small chunks and posting each individually. Wish me luck!

Thanks, JB. I am so fortunate to have an excellent support system of family and friends. For example, I am writing this from Vail, Colorado, where I am skiing with my son and daughter-in-law.

I have been trying for weeks to post the rest of the article I started above, but with no luck. Also no response from the support desk to my messages. I…[Read more]

Still no luck in posting the rest of my response.

I’ll keep trying to finish this post. System is not cooperating.

I appreciate this forum topic, which I don’t think has received proper attention. I am a 78-year-old male who still has a pretty strong sex drive. My spouse died recently from Parkinson’s Disease. She had been diagnosed in 2010. I also have PD, (diagnosed 2019) which is very well controlled and does not seem to be progressing much, if at all (for…[Read more]

Have you discussed estrogen with her doctor? That was very successful for my wife.