Parkinson’s - Early Signs
May 12th, 2008 | by admin |
Beth Maxwell asked:
Often the earliest symptom of Parkinson’s Disease is a slight, quivering of the individual’s right arm and hand, if right handed or the left-hand when left-handed - though this is by no means the rule.
Initially, the patient’s attitude is that “this can’t happen to me.” Or they take no notice of the event – thinking of some explanation like; ‘I had a late night last night’, ‘I’m feeling very stresses’ or ‘I’ll be ok tomorrow’ this is how the patient assures himself.
Often Parkinson’s comes on so gradual that the disease gives the patient ‘good’ days and ‘bad’ days. Often on the ‘good days’ the patient will forget about the bad days or think they weren’t as bad as they thought.
Other signs that the patient could be developing Parkinson’s are the quivering, the stiffness, perhaps an annoying and painful cramping of the muscles return and perhaps linger with a little more persistence.
Often the patient can rationalize the ‘bad’ days with ‘I had a very long walk’ that’s why I have these symptoms. And so it goes for the Parkinson’s patient so-called good days will become rarer, and the days when the symptoms reach a level of conscious awareness will predominate.
In the intervals between good days and bad days there will be “in between” days when the symptoms are present but not particularly annoying.
Days such as these give the patient huge amount of optimism that is inevitably by a measure of despair as the quivering and stiffness return.
Samuel
Often the earliest symptom of Parkinson’s Disease is a slight, quivering of the individual’s right arm and hand, if right handed or the left-hand when left-handed - though this is by no means the rule.
Initially, the patient’s attitude is that “this can’t happen to me.” Or they take no notice of the event – thinking of some explanation like; ‘I had a late night last night’, ‘I’m feeling very stresses’ or ‘I’ll be ok tomorrow’ this is how the patient assures himself.
Often Parkinson’s comes on so gradual that the disease gives the patient ‘good’ days and ‘bad’ days. Often on the ‘good days’ the patient will forget about the bad days or think they weren’t as bad as they thought.
Other signs that the patient could be developing Parkinson’s are the quivering, the stiffness, perhaps an annoying and painful cramping of the muscles return and perhaps linger with a little more persistence.
Often the patient can rationalize the ‘bad’ days with ‘I had a very long walk’ that’s why I have these symptoms. And so it goes for the Parkinson’s patient so-called good days will become rarer, and the days when the symptoms reach a level of conscious awareness will predominate.
In the intervals between good days and bad days there will be “in between” days when the symptoms are present but not particularly annoying.
Days such as these give the patient huge amount of optimism that is inevitably by a measure of despair as the quivering and stiffness return.
Samuel
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