symptoms of parkinsons disease

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

No two patients will have the same symptoms or Prognosis.

The symptoms of parkinsons disease, besides being similar to those of aging, are also like those of other ailments like stroke and Alzheimers. In fact the three conditions can be present in the same patients, in which case the symptoms will overlap. There are no specific tests to detect the onset of parkinson disease. Neurologists are best able to diagnoise PD.

Medicals doctors says a lot of the symptoms appear as someone ages, but they might not be due to parkinsons diseases, hence the confusion. Also no two patients will have the same symptoms or Prognosis. In addition, the symptoms can change from hour to hour, from day to day and from year to year. But there are some symptoms which are not normally found in normal aging,. The most well known are the uncontrolled tremors in the hands or feet, stiffness of the limbs, slowness of movement and diffculty with balance

The doctors also say onlt a small percentage of patients suffer from dementa. The symptoms progressively worsen as the disease advance. PD sufferers usually lose the battle due to complications,chiefly lung infection.

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