CORRECT and the bugg ppl are protected by the lobbiest in dc

My husband feels he got PD from his hobby of making stained glass windows. He did it for years and it entails soldering using lead. He didn't realize he should use some protection to keep from breathing in the fumes. We'll never know if that actually was the cause but it is one possibility.

His sister acquired early onset PD and she used to have a Mango Farm in Thailand and she used pesticides. This is probably how she got it.

LEAD CANNING I WAD A STAIN GLASS ARTIST, I GOT EARLY ONSET PD, THEY HAVE LINKED IT BACK TO A TRAMATIC ACCIDENT . WHILE STILL DOING MY STAIN GLASS I READ ABOUT A COMPANY THAT WAS SUEING A WELDING COMPANY THAT WAS FOUND TO HAVE WEIDING RODS THAT CAUSED CANCER ANY WAY I ASKED THEM ABOUT THE SODER AND THE FUMES SHE WAS EXCITED MORE TO TIE INTO HER CASE THEY DID THE RESEARCH THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO DIRECT LINK TO PARKINSON

I was a welder, for 15 years, so my thoughts are that's where I got PD from.

You know, all of us who have this terrible disease are looking for something to blame it on, me included. A year or so ago we had a discussion and a survey about well water. It was quite interesting. If I remember correctly, out of 20 some people who responded, all but 2 people had at some point or were still on well water.

When I was 35 yrs.old we moved to where we still reside. We have been on well water since that time. At 50 yrs. old I had PD. Connection? I don't know. The rest of the family is fine including my husband's father, who is 83 now and has been on well water the better part of his life.......................So there you go.

My thoughts are that some of us are lacking in certain enzymes, genes or whatever when we are born and that this sets us up so that under certain conditions we get PD.

Right now I am taking part in a study because I think it could possibly have a connection. Just like you, maroonkni, and the others who responded here, it may not be the insectisides or the fumes from welding, my uncle was a welder for over 40 years, is 87 now and doing great, but something that we are lacking in our bodies that other people have in their's. I feel this is a big possibility and if they can find out what these are and know the ones that could possibly become PD victims if exposed to certain things in our world................what a big step forward this would be. Just some food for thought. Would like to hear what some of your thoughts might be on this. Hope to hear from you, one or all.

have a great day,

Joanee63

Insectacides, and chemicals can be a trigger, i have not worked with any, but always wondered about one of my jobs that i did for approximately 5 years, i was a house cleaner, and i used so many strong household chemicals all day long, when cleaning, without wearing gloves, and in enclosed spaces, l also did builders clean ups and used toxic chemicals, was careful, but im sure i still breathed some in,,, interesting thought

Hi MaroonKnight, My family believe that my PD was triggered by a car smash I was in 6-10 months before diagnosis, I walked away from it totally unharmed. The car was a write-off 20,000 worth. Who knows what causes this awful disease! we call all speculate, I tend to think it was just pure bad luck in my case. It maybe in your genes so if you are destined to get PD or any other chronic disease no matter how you live your life upto then, you're going to get it anyway. If it's in your make-up. Nobody in my family can recall anyone way back having such an illness. I've had PD nearly 16yrs and aged 49. Stay strong and take care, dirk

During my military career (20 years) I have been exposed to asbestos. I was put in a radiation monitoring program after recieving too many rems in the line of duty, and I have worked extensively with chemicals and carcinogens such as Methyl Ethyl Ketone(mek), and various metal cleaning solvents. Even if I wanted to, the ferras act prohibits me, by law, from persuing legal action. Never had a traumatic brain injury.
Gregory

i have had pd for 9 yrs and i think i got pd from working around deisal fumes, i worked for 15 yrs at a truck stop as a chasire at the fuel desk ( this is where all the big trucks fuel,and even though it was very clean inside where i worked,there were 8 fuel pumps on either side of the building and we were basically sitting at the back of the parking lot, with drivers running thier engines all the time, then one of my bet friends worked for us steel where they recycle oil and other chemicals and too has been dxd with pd. so,since we all have different symtoms and one med works for one of us and not the other. i can only think it is caused by diferent things according too our bodies own chemistery. " and thats all i got to say about that" lol

I dont think it matters really to us who have pd, we have it and we cant change it... but it would be a wonderful thing if we could discover what causes it, and if it is body pollution, well let others know, sot they dont get it.

I think it is from past emotional trauma and stress , causes our bodies to pump out to many negative chemicals into our brain, when we should be happy relxed, and pumping out those feel good chemicals for out brain ..

I lived on adrenaline for 16 years, i think thats my cause

I'd say that this thread alone is proof enough to me that it is properly classified as "ideopathic". Then adding up my many different exposures and issues from my own past and all I can say is "who knows". Even geneology is tough to belive as PD has tackled people all over the world and even if they discover the code it will be quite a feet to develop that into useful information for future generations to battle PD. I say enough about the "how" for now and let's focus our time and other resources on the treatments. It would be logical to me that the more you advance with treatments, the closer you should be getting to a "how" anyway .

The PD Foundation's Q&A manual states that that PD is "a slow degeneration of brain cells occurring over many years before the first symptoms appear." My neurologist says that I probably had the disease for 10 or 15 years, before my dopamine production dropped to 50% of normal. At that point (about 2001) a stressful situation increased my need for the chemical, and the symptoms appeared for the first time. But the disease was caused by something that happened back in the 1980s. The stress I encountered in 2001 didn't cause it, but only revealed it.