How do people die from Parkinson’s disorder?
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Parkinson’s is a brain disorder that causes damage or death to specific brain cells. These specific cells are in charge of creating the chemicals that allow movement in the body both controlled movements and passive movements like breathing and your heartbeat. The slow advancement of cell damage causes the uncontrollable movements and eventually the damage progresses far enough to affect passive movements. Essentially your brain can no longer tell your lungs to breath or your heart to beat in the very end stages. There are many other factors that slow down and start causing damage to bodily processes but it’s down to the brain cells in charge of your body staying alive are dying. Hope that helps.
Parkinson’s is a brain disorder that causes damage or death to specific brain cells. These specific cells are in charge of creating the chemicals that allow movement in the body both controlled movements and passive movements like breathing and your heartbeat. The slow advancement of cell damage causes the uncontrollable movements and eventually the damage progresses far enough to affect passive movements. Essentially your brain can no longer tell your lungs to breath or your heart to beat in the very end stages. There are many other factors that slow down and start causing damage to bodily processes but it’s down to the brain cells in charge of your body staying alive are dying. Hope that helps.
I’m going to jump in here in case people aren’t familiar with Parkinson’s because I think it’s a misunderstood disease, there are treatments to slow it down and I think early Dx is important.
You can have Parkinson’s but not present with tremors – every person is different and there are different kinds of Parkinson’s.
Slowly getting urinal incontinence and having accidents; the person’s affect – the expression on their face – looks blank or spaced out; memory issues that can eventually lead to dementia; a person’s gait – they walk slower, and eventually shuffle along; restless leg syndrome at night; handwriting changes; anxiety/depression; moving like you’re in slow motion; a very quiet/soft voice;
Lewy body is a particularly cruel form, and got a lot more attention from Robin Williams.
A lot of these symptoms are common with aging, so it’s important just to be aware of the disease as a possibility, especially if you are around aging people like your parents. The symptoms, like soft talking, are very easily overlooked as an actual symptom.
I’m going to jump in here in case people aren’t familiar with Parkinson’s because I think it’s a misunderstood disease, there are treatments to slow it down and I think early Dx is important.
You can have Parkinson’s but not present with tremors – every person is different and there are different kinds of Parkinson’s.
Slowly getting urinal incontinence and having accidents; the person’s affect – the expression on their face – looks blank or spaced out; memory issues that can eventually lead to dementia; a person’s gait – they walk slower, and eventually shuffle along; restless leg syndrome at night; handwriting changes; anxiety/depression; moving like you’re in slow motion; a very quiet/soft voice;
Lewy body is a particularly cruel form, and got a lot more attention from Robin Williams.
A lot of these symptoms are common with aging, so it’s important just to be aware of the disease as a possibility, especially if you are around aging people like your parents. The symptoms, like soft talking, are very easily overlooked as an actual symptom.
So I have noticed that MJFox’s foundation is USA specific. We’re from Asia, so that’s not very helpful
So I have noticed that MJFox’s foundation is USA specific. We’re from Asia, so that’s not very helpful
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