fakhiuddin ahmed

My wife with PD suffers from depression, at times severe. The covid has separated her from friends. She feels weak and spends greater time in bed and it is difficult to determine if her fatigue is from depression or PD or likely both. Her exertion tolerance has progressively decreased, which makes me want to know how close to the end she is. I…[Read more]

My wife has been taking entacapone for a year, starting with half a pill to one whole one. She has many symptoms that are hard to ascribe to a single factor, as happens with most PD patients, but none of the symptoms have persisted even as she continues to take entacapone.

not knowing(will look up literature) I cancel whatever activity we were planning and let her rest.don’t know the experience of marijuana use but doubt if she will try that. If my energy is spent, I improvise.

I would not advise snow clearing for elderly folks. One fall resulting in a hip fracture may be extremely dangerous depending upon your age and general fitness. Many places have free services for elderly or disabled people in N.Y. maybe yours does too. sorry for this pessimistic opinion.

Please encourage folks to send follow up research projects they have come across. Curing PD in mouse models is exciting but any follow up data on how long did the response lasted, did any morph into neoplastic lesions?

I want to have access to the studies underway, including stem cell transplantation, inducement of patients own stem cells to grow faster, invivo or exvivo, exchange of csf etc.

Thanks

f.ahmed md

My wife.