From our Parkinson's patients and their families.
I picked up a pen and wrote a full sentence. Not pretty, but legible — and before the treatment I could not sign my own name. The morning stiffness eased too. I get out of bed and move now, without waiting twenty minutes for the medication to take hold.
My father was falling two or three times a week. A year on, the falls have dropped to about once a month, and even then it is more a stumble than a collapse. He walks with more confidence, and his physiotherapist confirmed the improvement is real.
Diagnosed at 43. My voice is stronger now — colleagues at work noticed before I said a word. The freezing when I walk through doorways has almost stopped, and the wearing-off periods on my medication are far gentler than they were.
The team treated my husband at home, because travel was too much for him. He used to shuffle everywhere and needed help cutting his food. Gradually he began lifting his feet properly again. He uses a knife and fork. This morning he dressed himself without asking. These sound like nothing until you have watched someone lose them one by one.
The rigidity down my left side had made everything hard: driving, getting out of a chair, turning over in bed. Six months on the stiffness has eased enough that I am driving again. My neurologist said it was the first positive change he had measured in three years.
I was honest with myself that Parkinson's does not simply go away. But two years on my tremor is steadier, the freezing is rarer, and I am back to walking my grandchildren to school in the morning. They were straight with me about what was realistic.
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