You might try soaking the feet in tepid water with epsom salts, and that might improve the circulation.(magnesium in the epsom salts may improve blood flow)

Check your diet for magnesium intake. Most people do not get enough daily. Estimates are 7 in 10 do not receive enough magnesium from food choices.
This is a wonderful resource to check your diet:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/


This is a link to my magnesium thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=1138

I'd definitely try to fix the purple feet...if it continues, nerves may become damaged and you will then have Peripheral Neuropathy to deal with.

Those here who are type II diabetics or close to being so, will be losing magnesium thru the urine. This situation makes it more imperative to look into good magnesium sources. Magnesium OXIDE in most common supplements is not absorbed, and is useless. The thread above gives other suggestions.
3 oz of unsalted almonds have 270mg of magnesium. A quick snack and easy for most to do.

Rick,

I also suffer from Curly toes. I have bunions on both of the bases' of my big toes which makes it hard to find shoes to fit. My big toes are being pressured to move to make room for the remaining toes. My toes curl under so bad, I have callouses on the top of them. I also am frequently having tingling and numbness in my legs.

To the caretaker who experimented with making himself anxious about turning a page in a book: Can you go to LA or Mt. Zion and force yourself to have severe or moderately severe results on a FDOPA Scan? Can you make your body fool a genetic test. Parkinson's is a real disorder, it is not a disease you can "think your way Positively out of." Sorry, no tinkerbell fairies in our future who can sprinkle us with Pixie Dust and make our symptoms dissappear.

Most people who meet me feel I am a very positive and friendly person and that I hide my symptoms beautifully. This means I am successful in making people comfortable around me and able to get them to see me and not the disease. But the disease is still there, and there are days I just cannot keep up the pretence that everything is Rosie.

Back to you Rick and the person who kindly posted the "ultra sensative profile." I have read the article and feel it fits me like a glove. I know I have personality problems and now I know how to look for help. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Being an abused child puts you in the position of training your senses to be very observant of other's moods (particularly the perpetrator) and prepare ways to defend your self or flee from the position or situation that allows the opportunity for the abuse to take place. As a child I would wear 3 or 4 pairs of pajamas to bed, hoping to make it too hard for my abuser to make the effort.

I have spent my whole life trying to train this character fault out of myself. I do not see it as a gift but as a curse. And I don't think I am paranoid: I am.

Vicky

Hi,
I am new on this support group.
Does anybody toes curled under soon after taking a dose of Sinamet?
My friend has begun to have this problem now.
Please could someone help me?
Thanks

Hi from the storm chaser here.

I can vouch for many of the things that Laura and Vicky have posted. I wasn't abused physically while growing up, but I have a grumpy parent. My dad would grumble and growl at the most miniscule thing, and while growing up I learned to size him up before speaking. This has become a common trait with me now. Before I speak, I think out my sentences in my head as though I'm writing a term paper, then spill the beans. I got into the habit of doing this so I wouldn't become tongue tied with fear before opening my mouth. When I was working at a small print shop once, the owner was yelling at his poor wife who did something really mundane. As he was yelling at her, I felt my own heartbeat speed up, I started vibrating internally, and actually thought I was going to pass out. It was like a flashback to when I worked with my family business and my dad was screaming at me for making some typos in some copy. These people reading skills still play in when I'm in mixed company, and have worked well in my favor. I'll size people up before I'll say anything to them, and can tell just by watching someone, like my former boss for example, before I'd even approach even to just say hello.

The curly toes... I had those about four or five years before the full symptoms started with the PD. They were one of the things that got me to see a neurologist. At first they'd happen while I was out walking, and in particular for long distances or over a bumpy surface. At one outing in Boston, where there were some cobblestones, I had to find a place to sit down to "rub" out the cramps in my feet. The toes curled down then up and stayed there. The pain got so bad, I thought I was going to pass out. These nasty cramps then happened off and on afterwards, and usually while under a lot of stress like when driving. I never put the two together and assumed it was due to the seat in my car, but in reality they were happening long before that, and with another car that had better seats. Now today I only get the cramps in my feet in the wee hours of the morning. They seem to show up between 2:30 and 4:00, and sometimes happen when I've skipped a medication dose due to napping or forgetting about it because I've gotten sidetracked on something else.

Storm chasing is not as crazy and wild as you'd think. It's not like what you see on the Discovery Channel or the Travel Channel. Those moments are far and few between, and they happen so quickly you don't realize what's going on until you look at videos later. One of the best times I had out there was watching lightning at night. We stood on a dirt road, covered ourselves in bug spray, and watched the incoming storm that was proably 20 miles away. The big sky with the chain lightning bouncing across the sky and all over the place was a sight to behold. As much as I tried to capture this on film, it was impossible. As a fellow traveller said to me, the scene was for my eyes only.

John

John-

I can relate to the storm approaching in the night thing. I really enjoy a good thunderstorm even knowing that lightning is far more deadly than tornados. I once was on a two day hike along the spine of a small mountain range near my home. We camped on a rocky high point with a wonderful view. Just at dark a storm rolled up the valley below us and then began climbing up to join us for dinner. Deciding that an aluminum framed tent was no place to be, I spent the next hour or so wedged between two big rock outcrops with the storm all around. It was as close to death as I've ever been and it was one huge rush. If I had been with a lover instead of a buddy it would have been perfect.