Originally Posted by reverett123

I was going through my badly neglected journal this afternoon and found something encouraging. There is a self-rating form called the UPDRS Rating Scale. It is a bit lengthy and you rate yourself in about 35 areas. Low numbers are good and the worst you can do is 128. Counting today I have filled it in 4 times in the last three years. The following are my unmedicated totals:

11/06/05 - 78
07/05/06 - 73
11/08/06 - 72
04/20/08 - 67

Those numbers should not be dropping by the standard way of thinking. Something is working, but I can only guess at what it is. Ginseng? MJFox are you out there?