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My wife has been the only person in my life for seven years, and, of course, she has a lif of her own. Married 26 years we have no children, and as for support groups, the nearest one for early onset PD was in Lisle. As for my 'manic episodes' I have discovered that the virtually dissapear with the elimination of major stress, the source of which was my deteriorating relationship with my wife. Things are not perfect but we are cooperating to find a situation for me. I hope that people reading this will appreciate the need for advance planning when a loved one has a disability or deteriorsting condition and there is a dearth of experts out there to seek advice from.
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My dear wife is loath to send me into 24 hour care, yet I fear being alone, and practially immoble half the day. Any advise?View Thread


2010 in Chicago has been blessed/cursed with extraordinarily pleasent weather! I believe this has contributed to my difficulties! We are halfway thru Nov and still having Temps og 60 or higher. I know very little about depakot and what its effects are. Can anyone in the medical community help with this?View Thread

The depakote is working well. I think it is well worth the risk to increase the sinemet such (its efficacy is as good as ever at the higher doses) than to waste many years of an almost normal life. And as far as my "physician team" goes the doctors I see might as well be on different planets.View Thread
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