Best Treatment Centers For Parkinson Disease
What is Parkinson's Disease?
Who Gets Parkinson’s Disease?
What Causes Parkinson’s Disease?
It remains a mystery why these chemical imbalances occur in the brain.
Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
Early stage symptoms
PD symptoms often appear slowly, and they can be quite mild. Sometimes they’re not even noticed until someone close to the patient points them out.
The severity of symptoms among PD sufferers varies. There isn’t an organized way that symptoms develop. And not every patient exhibits every symptom.
Early symptoms usually occur on one side of your body. Eventually, these symptoms will affect both sides.
Early stage Parkinson’s disease symptoms can include:
- A very slight tremor starting in a hand or fingers
- Tremor exists when hand or fingers are at rest
- Reduction in facial expression
- Speech changes, including softer or slurred speech
- A feeling of general unease
- Mild stiffness in movement
- Slight slowing of movement
- Limited arm movements when walking
- Depression
- Changes in sense of smell
Mid-stage Symptoms
More advanced symptoms of Parkinson’s disease may include:
Early stage Parkinson’s disease symptoms can include:
- Slowed body movement
- Painful muscles, spasms, or cramps
- Changes in penmanship
- Shortened steps or dragging feet when walking
- Muscle stiffness that can limit range of motion
- Development of poor posture
Mid-Late Stage Symptoms
More advanced symptoms of Parkinson’s disease may include:
- Dementia
- Depression
- Problems swallowing
- Excessive drooling
- Difficulty chewing
- Bladder problems
- Fatigue
- Decreased sexual desire
- Thinking difficulties
- Inability to maintain balance
- Increased anxiety, fear, or other emotional changes
- Inability to sleep through the night
- Slower digestion causing constipation
- Dizziness due to a sudden drop in blood pressure
- Inability to smell certain odors or differentiate odors
- Pain in certain areas or throughout the body
Advanced Stage Disease
At this point, patients have extreme physical limitations. They will have serious issues with posture and will need a wheelchair to move around.
Many patients become incontinent, and some are completely bedridden.
It’s not uncommon for patients to suffer hallucinations or delusions, sometimes brought on by medication.
Full-time nursing care is a must.