suffers from Parkinson's disease, then this is going to be one of the most important things you'll ever read.Causes of Parkinson’s Disease (Health Short)
08.09.10 / parkinsons disease / Author: Alex
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You’ve probably heard of Parkinson’s disease. But do you know what causes it?
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The Best Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease and RLS – Requip
Requip is a drug that is used to treat Parkinson’s disease and Restless Leg Syndrome. This drug works by hiking up the quantity of Dopamine in your brain to make the nervous system into thinking more than it actually does. This helps to relax the muscles and in turn provides respite to the indications for victims of Parkinson’s and RLS disease. The generic name of this drug is Ropinirole Hydrochloride and is manufactured by Glaxo Smith Kline. This medication belongs to the group of drugs called Dopamine Agonists.
This medications is available in tablet form and the normal dosage if around three times daily for Parkinson’s disease while it is just once a day before bedtime for RLS syndrome. This medication should be has along with your meals to prevent nausea. To get maximum effectiveness from this medicine, it should be taken regularly exactly as prescribed by your doctor. This drug is started at small doses and then increased gradually. Do not alter the dosage of this drug without consulting your doctor.
Requip has been reported to be quite a well tolerated drug by most patients but in some people minor side effects have been discovered. They include mild nausea, dry mouth, headache, giddiness, diarrhea or constipation, tension and sleep disorders. Most of these side effects wane off after you get attuned to this medicine. Suppose you develop intolerable adverse effects like fainting spells, fever, muscle stiffness, hallucinations, shaking and constriction in your chest, you should get in touch with your doctor at once.
This drug may trigger sleepiness in patients who are using it and so there is every chance of the person suddenly falling asleep in the middle of an activity. So it is safer not to drive or operate any machinery while using Requip until you are sure how you will react to it.
Requip is a well known drug and at the same time it is widely considered as the best option for most of the strange diseases that you might come along. It is always advised to buy these drugs at a reputed Online Drugstore, as you can save a lot of time and money. You can click here to Buy Requip
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Question by greeneyezz415: What’s a good exercise program for a person with a Parkinson’s disease?
Please include intensity, duration, frequency, modality, and methods utilized to determine progression of the exercise program.
Best answer:
Answer by catcrew2003
I can’t give you specifics, because what is good for one person may not be good for the next. Each person’s pd is different so there is no one size fits all. Some things I have heard that are helpful are yoga and stretching. I do weights which helps me. The best advice I can give you though is to find someone that can work with you one-on-one so you can get an exercise plan that works at the issues you are having most and that is reasonable for you. I don’t know where you live, but at least around me I know of several people who have expertise in exercise for people with parkinson’s. If finances are an issue, you could see about just getting a couple of appointments so at least they can get you started on a program that makes sense for you.
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Grandma’s Still Life with Flowers and Butterfly
Image by Cloganese
This is one of the last—if not *the* last—painting that my grandmother created before her death.
By this point, she was suffering from acute Parkinson’s Disease, and shook uncontrollably. By this time in her life, it would take her an hour just to finish a bowl of soup.
Despite all that shaking, she still painted, cleaning her brushes thoroughly before choosing another color, applying her brush to canvas in the way that she always had, and defied the failings of her own body in order to create beauty.
I find that I really like the impressionistic quality of this particular painting. While it is, of course, the result of her Parkinson’s Disease, it’s still got a quality about it that reminds me of the old impressionist/post-impression masters, notably Manet and Van Gogh.
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not trying to act like a Dr. but i’ve learned that the decreased dopoamine is actually happening in the corpus striatum portion of the basal ganglia
To Gmod Striker, im not a dr. just a PTA grad but i’ve learned that Wilson’s disease mimics PD . Wilson’s causes a defict in the metabolism of copper. The accumulation of copper within erythrocites (Red blood cells), liver , and kidneys produces degenerative changes (tremor, choreoathetoid movements, dysarthria, and progressive rigidity), i don’t know what symptoms you have but you should ask your Dr. about Wilsons if you display some of these. hope this helps
Hello guys,
Just an FYI….I am a Lyme disease patient . Lyme disease is known as :
” The Great Imitator” as it can mimic almost any disease that exists. Many Lyme patients I have spoken to over the years have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease when they actually had Lyme disease. Will email a Lyme disease brochure to anyone interested.
Elaine
You’re exposed to toxins every time you breath, open a can of soup or buy a vegetable that was grown with the use of pesticides. If you’ve drank out of a plastic bottle or painted your home, you’ve been exposed to toxins. If there has ever been a carpet in your home you’ve been exposed to toxins. you cannot be alive on earth and not be exposed to toxins. So yes…you’re grandmother has been exposed to toxins.
I’ve got a few symptoms but I’m not sure if I’ve got the disease
My dad never had exposure to toxins either.
Cause:
Oxidative stress due to free radicals, alfa-synuclein aggregation; proteosomal dysfunction in Substantia Nigra pars compacta causing Parkinson’s disease in Dopaminergic neurons in the Basal Ganglia. – So if your diet lacks anti-oxidants then you run the risk of deficit of Dopamin in the striatum.
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i got it hate it when they say oh micheal j fox has it he is doing fine. I say yea he has health insurance, money, resouces, and he does not have to go to work if he feels like it and sorry about your friend
He said genetics too
my Grandma never had exposure to toxin, this professer said he is a professer of this and he does not know, what teacher is that, that does not know.
Please tell me what if a parkinson’s disease patient never takes medications?
I am not a doctor and I am not trying to raise false hopes…..but LYME DISEASE is known as the “GREAT IMITATOR.” It can imitate many different diseases. ALS,MS,ANOREXIA NERVOSA,and PARKINSON’S to just name a few. Will email a LYME BROCHURE to anyone interested.
Elaine in VA
Parkinson disease is serious disease any1 who thinks its funny is a fucked up sick prat my friend died from it
that wasn’t much of a help
oh ofcourse
neurologist would not check dental state of their parkinson’s disease. Amalgam fillings is one of the reason
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There is no one size fits all when it comes to exercise for Parkinson’s disease.
As you already know, stiffness-rigidity, balance, breathing, depression, gait issues can make exercise much more difficult.
How one exercises may depend upon physical symptoms, the current physical condition of the patient, finances, accessibility to therapy centers and so on.
Many patients, especially younger patients already had an exercise routine and try to continue with that. They play sports and they work out in a variety of ways. Jogging if possible, lifting weights, swimming.
At a therapy center each patient is observed and a specific routine is designed for them. My husband’s program was designed specifically for him.
He uses mostly nautilus equipment and the swimming pool at the center. He has a check list of exercises and reps. He also uses the recumbent bike. The center recently added another type of recumbent, an elliptical one which took a while to learn as the settings are different.
He has not been in the pool recently because he felt that due to the pain from an arthritic knee on his “bad” side he needed to strengthen his leg muscles.
Swim therapy is mostly walking, knee bending and the like because the water supports a patient with poorer balance. He has still not been given the go ahead to use the treadmill even after many months. In total his time at the center is about an hour a day or almost 2 hours when he uses the pool.
Every few months he meets with a therapist who observes and tests him to determine his progress and revise his program. He says this particular therapist was even more thorough than his neurologist.
What the therapist observed was my husband walking, the distance he could walk, the way he walked (shuffled) stride, posture. Range of motion was tested in arms and legs. Ability to turn and maintain balance. The pitch of his feet – his left foot rolls over
Warm up on a recumbent bike for 10 minutes. Leg curls on nautilus 15 reps, abdominal machine 15 reps, triceps press separately on each arm 15 reps each, “vertical chest” pushing and pulling 50lbs or right side and then 30 lbs on left (bad) side. Exercise on table to stretch upper torso. Yoga neck exercises and then feet exercises. Then onto the semi-recumbent eliptical trainer bike for 15 minutes of cool-down.
Leg extension, leg curls are also included.
My husband walks slowly with a cane but can manage turning carefully – it is different for PD patients with stiffness and balance issues. If he didn’t have such painful arthritis, I think that his gait and balance would be quite different. He doesn’t like to walk through the pain and is concerned about his knee giving out.
There are a number of other specific exercises which can be done at home, in a chair or lying down to help individual areas. Breathing/swallowing/voice exercises are also a crucial part of an exercise routine for PD.
You can read about home exercises and see some photos by checking here:
http://parkinsonsfocustoday.blogspot.com/
Just scroll down the right column to the topic by topic index and also for quick voice exercises and photos.
It is important to exercise during “on” times if you are on levadopa meds. Equally important to be aware of balance issues so that you are working on them through exercise and do not put yourself in a posistion where you are alone but could fall.
Exercise is best in the morning or afternoon. It is not a good idea for PD patients to exercise in the evening – a few hours before sleep as sleep issues can be a serious problem for the PDer and late exercise can interfer.