"What the heck is this anyway" team....Parkinson's the name is just that, -someones last name. Everything about is highly subjective, and the mental processes (our thoughts) have a huge effect on our day (and night). If there is an actual Parkinson's disease it is located right where our thoughts walk out of the gate of our cerebral abstracts factory and into the grey matter of our actual brain. That's one reason we all wonder if we are just losing our minds. The drugs we take mess with everything about us and can contribute as much as they can confuse and betray. I've said this before...but it has always been notable to me that the two "types" of PD manifest themselves in two common expressions we use to describe fear: shaking in our boots or scared stiff. Fear is certainly one of the underpinings of PD.

A little off topic but I had a moment of revelation yesterday when I was talking to my Neurologist. We were discussing some changes to my med routine and I referred to the regular sinemet as "the yellow pills". He paused for a moment and said "what do you mean 'yellow pills'?" I said "you know, the regular sinemet...the pills are yellow..." It occurred to me later that he did not know they are yellow because he never sees them, just writes the prescriptions! (just had to share )

This thread could give someone a headache ( a neurological problem also). But the short of it is, I'm with Rick on this one.