Re: Focus Needed... Pain & PD

[DAVID LEWIN <lewin44@xxxxxxx>]

To add to the list, I too was first diagnosed with hypothyroidism.  The
synthyroid greatly reduced my fatigue for a while.  But then I was diagnosed
with PD, and that shifted my focus.   We need to know more obviously about
the autoimmune response.  David


> From: Brightline <brightline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: Focus Needed... Pain & PD
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:34:28 -0400
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> My experience was slightly different.
> I was diagnozed with hypothyroidism and started taking synthroid.  This
> eliminated my fatigue for a while.  But, my pain took over my attention.
> After a few years I was diagnozed with PD. As a hindsight, I now strongly
> believe that if I had controlled my pain early enough, I would have slowed
> the prgression of PD.
> Raj
> *********
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wendy Siegel" <wenwolf@xxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Focus Needed... Pain & PD
>
>
> > I see some commonalities between your wife's experience and my
> > husband's, things that may or may not be coincidence.
> >
> > You wrote:
> >
> > "Does anyone else have any information that draws any correlation
> > between
> > inflammation, autoimmune disorders and PD?  ...  The first is
> > where the Thyroid is attacked by the autoimmune system eventually
> > causing it
> > to underperform."
> >
> > My husband has recently developed a goiter. That was what eventually led
> > me to diagnose his PD. After researching it and other symptoms on the
> > web, I got the diagnoses down to hyperthyroidism or PD. The thyroid
> > doctor said all was normal, that's when I knew it was PD. He said they
> > don't know the cause of the goiter. Rich still has it, some days it is
> > larger than other days. So far, we can't determine what affects it.
> >
> >
> > You wrote:
> > "A great side effect during the course of treatment was an almost
> > total elimination of her asthma symptoms (reduction of inflammation in
> > lungs).  Since we have stopped the steroids it seems she is now
> > experiencing
> > more pain."
> >
> > Rich had asthma as a child, and has in the past used steroids. He hasn't
> > had problems with asthma in years though.
> >
> > Wendy
> >
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