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View Poll Results: For people with PD. What is/was your line of work? | ||||||
I am/was a healthcare worker | 9 | 23.68% | ||||
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I am/was a teacher | 13 | 34.21% | ||||
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I am/was neither a teacher or a healthcare worker | 16 | 42.11% | ||||
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01-09-2011, 10:24 PM | #31 | |||
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soccertese is an old grouch. Lonesome, ornery, and mean. And scared. Ignore him but don't let him run you off.
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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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01-09-2011, 10:40 PM | #32 | |||
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I think you're onto something here Yoga and Rick. I'm not a teacher but worked in the school system as well.
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01-10-2011, 01:43 AM | #33 | ||
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01-10-2011, 01:51 AM | #34 | ||
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01-10-2011, 02:05 AM | #35 | ||
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Hi, From my perspective, I'm echoing Laura's idea. I think that PD is multi-faceted and we need a thorough meta-analysis of the research. Know any librarians who could do this ?
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01-10-2011, 02:10 AM | #36 | ||
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01-10-2011, 04:40 AM | #37 | |||
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As Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist, told his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis, Satan's piano player, at the height of scandal, "You work your side of the street and I'll work mine."
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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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01-10-2011, 08:55 AM | #38 | ||
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i'll also refrain from making any future comments on your posts. you have a nice day. |
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01-10-2011, 12:30 PM | #39 | ||
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I am, I'm sorry to say, a healthcare worker and have been for 11 years now. There may be more to it than just profession, though. How many different kinds of toxins and diseases are healthcare workers exposed to in a day? As a double whammy, I enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1997 and was discharged in 1999. It's been said that soldiers also have a higher instance of PD.
On the converse, I love my coffee, and I also smoke. Caffine and nicotine have both been shown to be neuroprotective. So it takes us back to the risk factors in the first place. I, like Laura (conductor 71) believe that it has some kind of auto-immune origin. That is also slightly generic in that auto-immune can have started with such a plethora of viruses and that any one of those could have somehow broke the blood-brain barrier to cause the necessary attack of the dopamine producing cells in the substantia nigra. The treatment for this disease is what's most appalling. My neuro wants to talk about dbs before we've even started Sinemet. I'm going to have his conversation, but he's going to realize quickly next week that I'm the one living with it, not him. I'm not opposed to having the surgery, but not before we do something noninvasive like medication. Plus, there's the story I just read about Laura (Harley). Her having it removed, denied her meds, blacked out and placed under arrest, all because the nurses didn't want to give her her meds on time. All we have is meds, brain surgery that acts like a band-aid, and the hope of a vaccine that may stop the progression, but may not. I'm excited about the vaccine, but I hold back at the same time, not wanting to get my hopes too high. Too much emphasis placed on what may be and not on what is going on around you not only sets you up for disappointment, but alienates everyone around you. Take care of your caregivers. One day you'll need them when you can't speak for yourself. |
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01-11-2011, 07:25 PM | #40 | |||
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I too am a nurse with PD but I don't think my career had anything to do with getting this condition. A number of thoughts come to mind.
When I left school the career choices for girls where I lived were teaching, nursing, office work and little else. I'm the age group that gets PD and posts on boards. I suspect there is a disproportionate number of teachers and nurses here amongst the women at least. Like socerrtese I would want to know the overall stats of nurses and teachers otherwise the poll has no meaning for me. Although I am a nurse, less than half my working life has been spent actually practising as a nurse. How do I interpret this? My sibling has PD, diagnosed same time as me. I think genetics not career is far more significant for me but the poll would completely overlook this. As to less prevalence of Parkinsons in poorer countries, Fiona that is interesting. Can you point me to any research on that. I am looking forward to your thread on people who have recovered from PD. |
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