Parkinson's Disease Support Group
Parkinson's disease is a movement disorder often characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor, a slowing of physical movement, and in extreme cases, a loss of physical movement. The primary symptoms of Parkinsons are due to excessive muscle contraction, normally caused by the insufficient formation and action of dopamine, which is produced in the dopaminergic neurons of the...
God Bless,
Lee
Take Care, Charlie (cmelvin)
But when im relaxed , well its not there . PD people are very suseptible to stress! And the brain is extremely sensitive to stress, pd or no pd
I don't know what meds you are on - what I did was to call my DR and try to explain just how bad off I was (rapid heartbeat, sweating and then freezing. All I knew was that when I took the Sinemet all those symptoms were gone! and I was able to s.eep which I could not when I was "off meds". If you are feeling pretty bad don't wait for your scheduled appointment-get someone to see you and talk to you. Maybe you need to give it more time or maybe it's time to try something else!
Good Luck!
Mary
Ron
I find certain situations especially stressfull ones can trigger off the tremours and even last minute changes to routines or being startled can also bring them on too.
Good Luck Dirk ;-))