http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/...eir/index.html

Unfortunately, I already knew that it doesn't stop the progression. I think Medtronics even admits that it doesn't. Don't quote me on that, as I'm not 100% sure of that. But I'm pretty sure. It's a surgical band aid that seems to work, but obviously that's not true for everybody.

There was a nugget of (fool's?) gold in there; DBS may slow progression, but ...

. Now we need to do larger studies to find out why. It may be, as some have suggested, that deep brain stimulation stabilizes the motor progression of the disease, although other studies indicate that Parkinson's disease may just naturally stabilize after several years of progression," said Tagliati.


Wow! We might just stabilize on our own... that's novel. How long have these studies been going on? This paints quite a different picture than what we are told upon diagnosis.

Laura

Well it wouldn't suprise me, it also links back to posts on here about lower rates of PD in less developed countries.
i.e. No drugs gives the body's self levelling mechanisms a better chance of stabilisation, unless stress or exterior events kicks you off that achieved plateau and further down the mountainside. No drugs = slower decline ??

"No drugs gives the body's self levelling mechanisms a better chance of stabilisation, unless stress or exterior events kicks you off that achieved plateau and further down the mountainside. ??[/QUOTE]

This is fascinating to me because, if I remember correctly, schizophrenia (which involves neurotransmitter imbalance) tends to strike people in the late teens....then wrecks their life for years....then can magically disappear much later in life. "A Beautiful Mind" is a movie about a briliant professor who is stricken with schizo. I don't want to ruin it for those who may not have seen it but incredibly, after nearly wrecking his career, marriage, life, he somehow came back from the edge. It's based on a true story.

that's all opinion, right?
and that's lower REPORTED rates, eh? let's not twist the FACTS.
i don't know about you but i worry that what i post may have consequences if other readers act accordingly and i'd never discourage anyone from careful use of sinemet. so i'm careful to state what is opinion or likely FACT.

Originally Posted by Conductor71
...... although other studies indicate that Parkinson's disease may just naturally stabilize after several years of progression," said Tagliati.


Wow! We might just stabilize on our own... that's novel. How long have these studies been going on? This paints quite a different picture than what we are told upon diagnosis.

Laura

Well it wouldn't suprise me, it also links back to posts on here about lower rates of PD in less developed countries.
i.e. No drugs gives the body's self levelling mechanisms a better chance of stabilisation, unless stress or exterior events kicks you off that achieved plateau and further down the mountainside. No drugs = slower decline ??

My comment was on the reported studies by Tagliati - I said 'it wouldn't suprise ME '