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billyjoe CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 163 Berthoud, Colorado Gender:	Parkinson's & CH? Oct 31^st, 2008 at 9:32am I was surprised to see the question on the new survey asking if you had a parent with Parkinson's, because I do. Does anyone know what the relationship here may be? I am looking forward to the posting of the survey to see how much of a correlation may be here. Bill
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Re: Parkinson's & CH?
Reply #1 - Oct 31^st, 2008 at 10:57pm

billyjoe wrote on Oct 31^st, 2008 at 9:32am:

I was surprised to see the question on the new survey asking if you had a parent with Parkinson's, because I do. Does anyone know what the relationship here may be? I am looking forward to the posting of the survey to see how much of a correlation may be here.

Bill

My Great Grandfather had Parkinsons. My Papa has told me a lot of what they went through with him. It may also be a standard question, to find out what kind of neurological diseases run in the family... I know every neurologist I've had, has asked if there was anything like it in the family.

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coach_bill CH.com Hall of Famer Offline "Dont expect me to lay down for this" Posts: 680 x0\|euclid\|USA\|\|0\|0\|OH,Ohio Gender:	Re: Parkinson's & CH? Reply #2 - Nov 1^st, 2008 at 11:09am My uncle had this parkinson,s it messed him up real bad and now im very interested in finding out more info on a link. coach bill
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ChefChris CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 245 Virginia Beach, Va Gender:	Re: Parkinson's & CH? Reply #3 - Nov 6^th, 2008 at 10:41pm My mom has MS. another nero disorder. does this have something to do with my condition?? far fetched?? just asking.
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billyjoe CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 163 Berthoud, Colorado Gender:	Re: Parkinson's & CH? Reply #4 - Nov 7^th, 2008 at 7:35am I asked my neuro about this and he said (I think) Parkinson’s is located in the hypothalamus area and CH is in the thalamus. So they are located close together, but other than that he had not heard any correlation. He did think it was good for a survey to be looking "out of the box". Bill
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MPMIII CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 112 Alabama Gender:	Re: Parkinson's & CH? Reply #5 - Nov 7^th, 2008 at 9:16am Both my grandfathers had Parkinson's, but neither had clusters. Malcom
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Re: Parkinson's & CH?
Reply #6 - Nov 7^th, 2008 at 9:24am

A very thought-provoking question!

It's well established that there's a very high incidence of smoking in clusterheads' medical histories. It's also well established that there is a very LOW incidence of Parkinson's among smokers. Wonder if there's a correlation?

Could it be that smoking somehow prevents Parkinson's, but that CH might pop up instead? Maybe a lot of us would have gotten Parkinsons instead of CH if we hadn't taken up smoking? Just wild speculation, but it's interesting.
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coach_bill CH.com Hall of Famer Offline "Dont expect me to lay down for this" Posts: 680 x0\|euclid\|USA\|\|0\|0\|OH,Ohio Gender:	Re: Parkinson's & CH? Reply #7 - Nov 7^th, 2008 at 8:22pm Hmmm....
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jon019 CH.com Alumnus Offline "Ya gotta believe!" Posts: 1656 USA Gender:	Re: Parkinson's & CH? Reply #8 - Nov 7^th, 2008 at 8:48pm none in my family... yes...a good question...but I'm gonna choose to NOT worry about it...DID get that genetic worry wart gene from Ma and Nanno...I'm tryin SO hard to beat that one for now... Best, Jon
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Re: Parkinson's & CH?
Reply #9 - Nov 11^th, 2008 at 1:12pm

Interesting idea here, I hadn't thought of it.

Yes, my mother had Parkinson's. My brother gets migraines but I'm the only one of us blessed with CH. I'll have to ask my neuro about this!

David

Oh, and something else - I've been getting what he calls Benign Positional Vertigo, had two bouts of it (one currently). Annoying but at least there's the benign word in there... don't think it's related but you never know.

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