Parkinson Symptoms

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> Has anyone on the list had trouble with Parkinsons type symptoms such as

tremors of the hands, arms and feet or head " bobbing " ? I had those symptoms

quite badly some of the time until I started on a Parkinsons drug in 1997.

[Patti] At my worst I had what I think were alarming Parkinson-type

symptoms. I had hand tremors so bad I couldn't write anymore, and the pesky

head " bobbing " and some shuffle also. Not sure exactly what I did to

overcome this, but it started going away when I was working on improving Th1

response. (but sometimes I'm on so much its hard to say what's doing what)

Parkinson's is basically a lack of dopamine. The symptoms you see with lack

of dopamine follow a continuum. Anything above a certain percentage loss of

dopamine is called normal, and anything below a certain percentage of normal

dopamine levels is arbitrarily called Parkinson's (some info on this at

www.antiaging-systems.com <http://www.antiaging-systems.com> - gosh, I

mention them so much I ought to get a commission - I DON'T - they just have

lots of cool info there). I've read quite a few papers detailing low

dopamine levels in PWCs. I think we probably " ride the line " on dopamine

levels, not low enough to be called Parkinson's but still low enough to get

some symptoms. Dopamine levels drop with age, so theoretically everyone

will get Parkinson's eventually if they live long enough. Some people

develop the dopamine loss at earlier ages and more precipitously and get

Parkinson's earlier. I've said many times that I think there is plenty of

evidence to show CFS is an early ageing disease and low dopamine levels are

one key to my theory. However with my current problems the hand tremor

returned recently.

Patti

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