could synemet responsive dystonia be an allergy ? Posted: 02-17-08 20:58pm
I am a 45yo man. When I was 31 I was
diagnosed with Parkinsons. This, the
doctor, based on the PK symptoms I had
described. So, I was prescribed Synemet. I
remember the immediate help this provided
me, and has since. I still need to take it
every day (four doses). However by the
time I was in my late thirties the doctors
began scratching their heads as my
parkinson's hadn't progressed at all, and
basically re-diagnosed me as having a
"Synemet responsive dystonia", and this is
where I am today. Over the last year or
so, I began wondering (after considering
that the medical industries primary
objective is to throw drugs at everything)
if it were just possible, that this
dopamine deficiancy that I have could be
an allergic reaction to something I am
consuming every day. This has been
weighing on my mind for some time now
after hearing from a friend who suffered
for years with something completely
different. He'd been to doctor after
doctor as they seemed to invent new
medications that never helped him. After
ten years of this, he went to a
nutritionist and discovered that he was
alergic to Wheat germ all along, and now
is living his normal life drug free (and
wheat germ free, I suppose). Is it
possible that I too, am just having a
reaction like that? Could I be alergic to
something as seemingly harmless as milk
fat, that if I just removed it from my
diet everything would start working
normally? I live in Tacoma Washington, is
there a great nutritionist you'd recomend
me seeing here in Tacoma? Or even Seattle?
I am six feet tall and weigh 175 lbs.
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