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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,772
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Lurking
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A good point that applies across an even wider field. Both acute and chronic populations abound. Yet they are not the same as PWP. In fact, no group fits the bill.
How to explain it? The assumption that has sucked up so much time and money over the years is that we just need to look harder. "Further grants are required...."
There is another explanation, what I call the "Blue Plate Special." A menu with a column of a few entrees and another with a dozen sides. Maybe a hundred possible combinations. Choose two from the first column and you have something other than the BPS. Choose exclusively from the second and you have a vegetable plate. But choose a "meat and three" and you have PD.
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Born in 1953, 1st symptoms and misdiagnosed as essential tremor in 1992. Dx with PD in 2000.
Currently (2011) taking 200/50 Sinemet CR 8 times a day + 10/100 Sinemet 3 times a day. Functional 90% of waking day but fragile. Failure at exercise but still trying. Constantly experimenting. Beta blocker and ACE inhibitor at present. Currently (01/2013) taking ldopa/carbadopa 200/50 CR six times a day + 10/100 form 3 times daily. Functional 90% of day. Update 04/2013: L/C 200/50 8x; Beta Blocker; ACE Inhib; Ginger; Turmeric; Creatine; Magnesium; Potassium. Doing well.
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