10 Early Warning Signs of Parkinson's Disease

It can be hard to tell if you or a loved one has Parkinson's disease (PD).

Be aware of the 10 signs that you might have the disease. No single one of these signs means that you should worry, but if you have more than one sign you should consider making an appointment to talk to your doctor.

00:11 Tremor
00:18 Small Handwriting
00:23 Loss of Smell
00:30 Trouble Sleeping
00:35 Trouble Moving or Walking
00:41 Constipation
00:47 A Soft or Low Voice
00:55 Masked Face
01:04 Dizziness or Fainting
01:11 Stooping or Hunching Over
01:22 Helpline Information

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[mmedeuxchevaux]

I think this video should include a disclaimer that trembling hands could be caused by other conditions such as essential tremor. Some other symptoms as well could be caused by other conditions.

[marthasuareztorres]

It´s an excellent and very teaching video!! Thanks!!!

[WaterproofSoap]

I'm 58....I just checked off every one of these.

My great Aunt succumbed to PD 20 years ago, as did her grandfather.

I'm not buying into worry there WILL be more than one diagnosis/prognosis before I say anything to those I'm close with.


What good would that do?

I'm already missing 90% of my lower intestines due to a GI Bleed out 8 years ago that nearly took my physical life and was a convergence of catastrophes in loosing my house, my horses, my marriage and my chances of retirement....

...I went and got another horse, moved into a run down farm house that barely passes the local county Board of Health standards, continued on with my band (paying gigs, but not the kind that pay regularly or at meaningful levels.

....and I spent 6yrs in the to the Persian Gulf even.

night, while on an armed roving shipboard security watch, steaming underway just off the Philippines, someone had left one of the aft fire lockers door pinned open, and three 50' lengths of cotton jacketed fire hose coiled one on top of the on the deck where they shouldn't have EVER been exit from the interior breezeway to the weather decks saw to it that I had ZERO night vision once topside during darken ship conditions.

I tripped and took the full weight of the fall on the left side of my head, hearing a sickening Crack like the sound thar a baseball bat makes when a major league baseball player slugs away and it solidly connects with a baseball.

I saw a white flash when I hit.


....I was 23 at the time.
Young enough to think that the comments of untrained laymen saying "I think you're going to be fine" were I did go see the Doc, to my credit.
What I didn't count on was that they'd loose my military medical record, so 'proving' my case was going to be IMPOSSIBLE without that corroborated

To this day. 33 years later. TMJ plagues me because the jaw joint is a permanently marred part of my anatomy.

Lack of a military med record (searched the Naval Personnel Records Center in New Orleans) means that on veterans day, I can go to the VA and get a coffee and find a brother and/or sister to relate but I have to BUY the coffee.

No one
They really don't

My family is nonexistent, and I just sit here typing and hoping that my last 10 minutes here on Earth lmake it worth the fight and the costly clean up

What's to hope for when hope is as hollow as fear, and twice as impracticable.

My whole life has been a poor man's I really did, and will, try....even though 60 approaches and there's just the struggle to keep me occupied and 'productive'

I feel that PD would be in keeping the life motif that seems to be my experience....


....speaking of which, the motif of hearing someone scold me for sulking and mentioning these things should be rounding the bend just about any moment now.

Oh well, maybe better luck next time around....

But we all know it's one ride per customer.


*enjoy your memorial weekend bar-b-ques and relaxation a burger and a beer for me, if you lack of a couple feet of intestinal tract says beer is off the menu....or more could be on the menu, but it would probably be the last time ever.


couple of cold brews sounds even better now than they ever have.

* Next time you have the opportunity to tell someone you it, please. Or better

Show them that you do in your ordinary daily to them.

Peace to all who took the time to read my micro-memoir, and also to those who didn't or couldn't.

Love is the answer....

always has been, even before the question was ever posed.

🤟🫶🤟🫶🤟🫶🤟🫶🤟

🫡

[a_random_W]

I have 8 out of the 10 signs, please pray for me

[joemancini]

I was diagnosed today. I get an MRI on Monday. I will be watching a lot of these. I oon’t have all those symptoms but I have a lot of them.

[Lavendartea]

My resting tremor started in my right leg…diagnosed with PD about two years ago.

[EmanuelHernandez-dqwm]

Ive recently started to have uncontrollable shaking on my left foot the thing is i dont know what it could mean because on my left foot i had surgery when i was 8 and on my right foot i have no shaking so it might be due to the surgery i had years ago i hope...

[manmade]

I have extreme anxiety disorders and CTE & this are my biggest fears, ive been experiencing really bad depersonalization, inability to fall asleep, delirium episodes when i shoot up at night, tight muscles, and im under a lot of panic and hyperventilating crying episodes

[karenbushnell]

I wish I had known about the issues with sense of smell. That happened a number of years ago, and it didn’t occur to anyone that it might be a sign of PD. I also have olfactory hallucinations - I smell things that aren’t there.

[Kitkat]

I've been seeing a neuro for the better part of a year now and we're still trying to figure out what is wrong with me. Back in 2019 I tested positive for ANA (auto immune antibodies). I started to get double vision when I was 45 and have needed rx glasses ever since. I still have trouble with spots in my left eye. My right side is affected mostly, but I have some symptoms on my left side as well. My legs and right arm jerk when I relaxe in a prone position. It occurs mostly in bed when I lay down to sleep. I've had a sleep study done and now need a cpap but it was recorded during my study that my legs jerk a lot during sleep as well. I have numbness, weakness and pain in my hands, arms and legs. My right foot is perpetually swollen. I've suffered with migraines for years. My recent MRIs showed some severe degeneration of my C4 to C7 vertebrae win stenosis in canal and foramina and an issue in the L3-L4 region where there is a protruding disc touching the L4 traverse nerve root. A few months ago, I've developed a head tremor. It persists until this day. I can sometimes control it but it comes back. I wake up in the morning stiff as a board and it takes a long time to be able to grab things with my hands. I feel pain and discomfort and I drop things frequently. Very clumsy. I have a f/u appt with my neuro in early Feb. Hopefully he can help me out more to try and figure out what this is.

[craigroberts]

38 years old with five signs...have noticed small but significant changes to my body. My right ring finger tip has been feeling numb lately, once a day I catch myself tripping over my feet momentarily, and lately have developed this benign but frightening moment where it feels as if I'm rocking back and forth altho I'm perfectly sitting still. I sometimes also have to knowingly swing my arms when I am walking or I feel as if they want to just hang by my sides, motionless.

[Maggie-tqdu]

My head shakes uncontrollably sometimes. My co workers noticed

[kimpark]

Im fifteen and i have 7 out of the 10 early signs

[lockload]

I've had spasms in my left hand for 2 weeks. I fit all of these symptoms but I'm 44. Should I be concerned?

[etam]

22 years old, lost my sense of smell a year ago, although i always believed it was due to Covid, i do also have some rapid movements when i sleep from time to time and my handwriting has changed.


What should i be asking my doctor about this?

[javabucket]

I’m only 13 but I have had a slight tremor in my hands for a few weeks now, over 2 months. My legs recently have been stiff, and I can barley run and get super tired. I also have adhd so I though that was the reason I always have had troubles sleeping, but I don’t know if that has anything to do with it

[pyrofful]

To all the teens asking of hand shaking is possible think about your medications you are on. Especially any medication for ADHD or if you drink caffeinated drinks. (High rev coffee, monster energy drinks, red bull ect).

You are most likely fine and just worrying which anxiety alone could cause this. It is extremely rare if you are a teen you have this and should look at your life style and meditation/supplements.

[BasketballUpdates-yfrg]

Im 18 and i have problems in balancing and i also have tremors and often have fast palpitation heartbeat

[elfalerae]

The chin tremor is interesting. If its in the hands fingers or thumb understandable, but the CHIN?

[KingKurmit]

So I have this twitch in my index finger, and I don't really sleep that well, so should I be concerned?
This twitch in my finger has been bothering me for about 2 years probably, and it's getting more frequent, age 14 by the way.