Today I got some feedback from a friend who had a question:
“If I have no symptoms at this moment, do I still have Parkinson’s?”
This is a valid question that will get contradicting answers depending if it is answered by “school medicine” or by “alternative medicine”.
According to mainstream school medicine – or as it is ironically often called “traditional medicine” – there is at present no cure for Parkinson’s. Once you have it, it will be downhill, over a time of years or decades. It is not uncommon, when people get acupuncture treatment with a similar success as I had, they are told that it must have been a misdiagnosis. I find it interesting that some physicians rather admit that their diagnosis was wrong than admit that there could be a cure…
With the concept of brain plasticity it also took decades before it became accepted by “the mainstream”. Therefore I think it could be possible that with whatever causes Parkinson’s, a similar situation will be “discovered” by mainstream medicine in due time.
Back to the question: In my case, I still think the answer is yes, because if I skip an extra week or two of acupuncture, or if I overstrain myself, some symptoms reappear, mostly with balance issues, and faintly with tremors and brain fog. This means, as far as I can judge that at this time I still have Parkinson’s. This does not mean that after some more years of treatment I could be cured, even though it will be difficult to know for sure, because by that time the normal aging process can manifest in similar ways.
There is no doubt in my mind that the treatment I am getting is working for other people as well, as you can also read in the recent post “Reflections on this Blog”. Therefore I consider it possible that there actually is a cure, it just needs to become recognized by mainstream practitioners and researchers.
Reflections 