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12-09-2012, 04:44 PM | #1 | ||
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Hello, my name is Patti
I have just joined the site looking to see if others diagnosed with Parkinson's, question whether they have been misdiagnosed. I am believing this now about my husband, he was dx'd at the age of 60 with Parkinsons and on treatment for 17 years. We have been making changes in his meds slowly doing away with one all together then lowered the Sinamet strength along with slowly cutting back on it, seems it is turning out for the better. I am not use to posting on a forum please excuse any boo boos. Thank you. Patti |
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12-10-2012, 08:59 AM | #2 | ||
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"Thanks for this!" says: | foreverhavehope (12-16-2012) |
12-10-2012, 10:13 AM | #3 | |||
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Welcome, Patti. If your husband has been receiving PD care from a neurologist for the past 17 yrs, I would say it is highly unlikely that he has been misdiagnosed. The doc(s) knows exactly what to look for as time goes by. Your husband's symptoms may "appear" to improve as he backs off certain meds, but this may simply be a temporary result of "not" taking the meds--if that makes any sense. Most every PD patient will or should take a brief "holiday" from taking sinemet, for example. I have had PD for about 17 yrs; onset of symptoms at age 34. I "feel" better for a few days when I take a 5-7 day break from the sinemet, but it is kind of risky business.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | foreverhavehope (12-16-2012) |
12-10-2012, 03:11 PM | #4 | ||
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Harley is not alone, you would be surprised at the number of people who are misdx'd with PD. The "estimate" is 30-35%. I think with some of the newer tests that may come out, this will change, but there are a whole lotta folk out there right now living the PD nightmare who may not have to be. You can search this forum for Harley's posts, and this forum and the PD sites for stats on the approximate mis-dx rate. You can understand why it is so high when you realize that the only "definitive" test for PD is the finding of Lewy Bodies in the brain on autopsy. If they find them, you had PD and your dx is post-humously confirmed: if they do not find them, you were mis-dx'd (big consolation after you are gone). Complicating this is the fact that they find Lewy Bodies in the brains of people who never had a single symptom of PD....and that people who manifested PD very strongly have been found to not have Lewy Bodies in their brain at death. I take all of this to mean that we still have no real idea of what we are dealing with |
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12-10-2012, 04:14 PM | #5 | ||
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"Thanks for this!" says: | foreverhavehope (12-16-2012) |
12-10-2012, 10:00 PM | #6 | ||
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Sorry, can't copy the full link, but you can Google it via parkinson *edit* Quote:
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"Thanks for this!" says: | foreverhavehope (12-16-2012) |
12-11-2012, 07:53 AM | #7 | |||
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Welcome to the forum, Patti. I am one that feels most people are worse off the more meds they are on. The only pharmaceutical I take is armor thyroid (pig source) for low thyroid...I cannot take the synthetic drug synthyroid for that...it makes me tremor more and has other side effects for me. I recommend Dr Laurie Mischleys book Natural Therapies for Parkinsons Disease. She lists things that mimic PD. (along with good foods and supplements for PD). You might find some interesting info there. God Bless!
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"Thanks for this!" says: | foreverhavehope (12-16-2012) |
12-11-2012, 08:59 AM | #8 | ||
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i guess i should have said i doubt there is 30% or more of long term misdiagnosis of parkinson's. is that misdiagnosis rate just for incorrectly saying someone has pd or missing the fact they have pd and calling it something else? sorry, not convinced that there are more than a million people misdiagnosed as pd. but we'll never know until better/cheaper diagnostic tools are developed which is the major point here i think. plus better training of GP's. i showed many pd symptoms which my GP missed, the primary one being lack of right arm swing and we played soccer together!! i also had 2 frozen shoulders prior to my diagnosis. what spurred me on to get a diagnosis was difficulty cleaning my hard contact lenses between my fingers on my right hand, went to see an orthopedic doctor, he referred me to a neurologist. |
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12-12-2012, 03:42 AM | #9 | ||
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12-28-2012, 06:46 PM | #10 | ||
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Has anyone's ad their levels checked, Dopamine level? My husbands just came back ver high 2,137 Epinephrine was elevated to 99
the normal range for the lab shows Dopamine normal range 0-40 APPRECIATE OTHERS REPLYING THANK, PATTI |
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