Quote Originally Posted by Brody's Mum
Parkinson's comes in many forms - some have very pronounced physical effects like Michael J Fox while others it affects mentally. My Dad had both. I've seen people in his PD group who moved more than MJF and they weren't acting either. There is no typical "Parkie" which is why it is such an awful disease to try to control.



The "on" and "off" is very accurate but its not just a case of skipping one lot of tablets and then reverting back the minute you take the next lot. Even getting the timing wrong by half an hour or less can upset the levels in the patient to such an extent that takes weeks to find a right level again


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Thanks for putting it so perfectly. My dad's Parkinsons started with a shaking of his thumb. He never had much physical shaking: his PD affected his throat, stomach..internal organs. He had pneumonia 5x or more, ate pureed food and finally apirated. His facial muscles were affected, he became stiff and wheelchair bound. People in his PD group, as Brody said, had so many different levels of it.
Dad was too old for brain surgery. He was a guinea pig for any new med on the market. His doses were changed constantly. In the end, the meds caused hallucinations, delusions, paranoia and seizures.
Oddly, maybe not, our family knew of 4 men, all my dad's age who died from Parkinsons. All served in the military around the same time. Coincidence? Environmental?
I'll tell you what..whenever I get a "twitch", I freak out.