Re: barking up the wrong tree

[Amanda Phillips <Ajphill@xxxxxxx>]

In a message dated 22/06/2007 07:02:19 GMT Standard Time,  
mmoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Why  do I stop shaking when really absorbed in playing music ?  There  isn't
> much time for brain chemistry to change - the doctors just  said 'you must
>  be mistaken -no\I'm not.


There are  definitely weird things attached to PD. JOhn had a very bad bout 
of 
panick  attacks + dyspneia during the winter. These attacks were really  
frightening and we couldn´t relate them to the treatment and the various  
doses of sinemet.
One night he woke me up once again to tell me one  attack was on its way. I 
don
´t like being wakened up, especially when I  cannot do anything about it so, 
half asleep, I told John to recite a poem.  He was a little surprised but he 
started to recite the bits he could  remember from Tennyson´s Lady of Shalot.
Whether the Lady did something or  the use of a forgotten part of his brain 
affected the rest of it, I don´t  know but that was the beginning of the end 
of these dreadful panick  attacks. From then on, he waited firmly for them to 
reappear and  confronted them with new passages of the poem. Worked....so far.
maryse cg  JOhn  78,18

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panic attacks - breathing into a paper bag (not plastic) is an old remedy  
but does work, possibly due to embarrasment caused....shame it won't fix the  
pd.



   

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