The dementia pre-treatment was an aid to my diagnosis. Hallucinations, wild mood swings, forgetfulness, not recognizing familiar people and places, the whole ni

The dementia pre-treatment was an aid to my diagnosis. Hallucinations, wild mood swings, forgetfulness, not recognizing familiar people and places, the whole nine yards, are part and parcel of the whole affair. And then you string a few "good days" together and feel like things might be sort of normal, or at least manageable, again. Then yoink! Parkinson's kinda sucks that way: I'd say about a third of the people I know with the diagnosis re people I would have been able to point to from across the street and say, "that fellow has Parkinson's." The rest have a presentation that doesn't look much like the textbook, but we have a few things in common if you look deeply enough. Frankly, though, there's a lot of diagnosis by elimination and medication.