Those of you who've read Three Men in a Boat will know just what I mean. As he said to his medical man:
"I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is not the matter with me. I have not got housemaid's knee. Why I have not got housemaid's knee, I cannot tell you; butthe fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I have got.

Well, that's me now, too. The major difference between J.K. Jerome's illnesses and mine is that I tend to blame everything on PD, and failing that, on PD meds side effects.

Now I've had bleeding gums for the last year or so. I have never neglected my oral hygiene and yet, here it is, gum disease. I would love to blame Stalevo, since it alters the taste of food and dies my saliva brown, but I can't find any proof or studies to that effect.

Have any of you experienced gum disease in the last few years and if so, do you know why?