Most reliable tests for Parkinson's?

@sunnyduckel Did DaT Scan help you out or Dr. out with diagnosis?

@tngirl103 I had a neurologist order a DATscan to determine Parkinson’s as well as other tests.

@emmit Well, you know how dogs like roadkill? who knows what they think. 😉 and how they leave messages for each other on trees when they check their pee-mail? Now that I know I can't smell, Iwonder how many of my officemaates may have been overcome by my perfume because I likely put on too much.

@jatonlouise
that is very interesting except now I think I must smell. i wonder how the dogs react---i will look this up thanks

@jatonlouise - if you do have the direct reference for this - a link you could post here - I'm sure others would be interested and glad to have it.

@jatonlouise - if you do have the direct reference for this - a link you could post here - I'm sure others would be interested and glad to have it.

DO A SSEARCH OF Awoman named Joy Milne. It's about a woman whose husband had PF and she had noticed a change in the way h smelled. That smell has been linked to Parkindon's and there are many tests going on to ffigure out h ow to leverage that finding. Researchers gav mer 40 t-shirts. some of them had been worn bypeoplewho had parkinsons; others were ward bypeoplewho did not have Parkinsons. She got 39 of them right-----sshe had ssaid one shrit hadd been worn by someone with Parkinsons and he didnt. But 8months later, hthis man contacted her and told her henow had Parkinson's So she got 100% on her test. The National Institiutes of Health are teaching dogs t o pick up the scent. I rather like the odd coincidence that one of the primary indiccators thaat a person has PD is that they have lost their sense of smell, and smellis one way it can be identified. There is some substance that comes along with parkinsond that manifests itself in a smell. Imagin going to adoctor and he brings out a dog to sniff you and see whethe you have Parkinson;s. ;0

DO A SSEARCH OF Awoman named Joy Milne. It's about a woman whose husband had PF and she had noticed a change in the way h smelled. That smell has been linked to Parkindon's and there are many tests going on to ffigure out h ow to leverage that finding. Researchers gav mer 40 t-shirts. some of them had been worn bypeoplewho had parkinsons; others were ward bypeoplewho did not have Parkinsons. She got 39 of them right-----sshe had ssaid one shrit hadd been worn by someone with Parkinsons and he didnt. But 8months later, hthis man contacted her and told her henow had Parkinson's So she got 100% on her test. The National Institiutes of Health are teaching dogs t o pick up the scent. I rather like the odd coincidence that one of the primary indiccators thaat a person has PD is that they have lost their sense of smell, and smellis one way it can be identified. There is some substance that comes along with parkinsond that manifests itself in a smell. Imagin going to adoctor and he brings out a dog to sniff you and see whethe you have Parkinson;s. ;0