This thread and the one started by ol'cs "Didn't know" which has diverted from the new patch drug to a general drug impact/side effect discussion raises some massive issues for us.

Firstly look at how many posts "Didn't know" has generated in less than 24 hours!

I am sure there is not one of us here who does not regularly mentally challenge his/her diagnosis.

We all have widely differing combinations of symptoms.
We all take widely differing combinations of PD drugs.
We all have widely differing responses to these drugs.
We all suffer widely differing drug side effects.
We all have widely varying rates and profiles of PD progression.

WHY???

The over simplistic answer is that PD is a complex illness.

Perhaps the more realistic answer is that PD is a generic term in the same way that the term "virus" is used.

There surely is not another disease like it:

Almost impossible to definately diagnose.
Relentless in it's progression.
Indescriminate in its selection of candidates.


It's a pity we all live so far apart and that many of us are so imobile because I am sure reverett123 has a good general point about what we all ought to be able to do together (despite what some of the posts to his thread have said). We are, as he often says, at the mercy of drug companies who primarily exist to generate a financial return for their investors and are also restrained by a mass of other outside factors.

Afterall we do all have one thing in common, we are desperate for a cure or even something to slow the disease progression!!

Not sure if any of that will be of any use to anyone but I feel better to getting it out .........

Chris