Texas Voice Project for Parkinson Disease – Community Awareness Video

04.09.10 / parkinsons disease / Author: Alex
Tags: Awareness, Community, Disease, parkinson, Project, Texas, Video, Voice

Parkinson disease affects thousands of men and women in the Dallas-Ft Worth area. See what one organization is doing about it. Our website is www.texasvoiceproject.org

Get Rid of Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease With Requip

Parkinson’s disease can be categorized into the group if disorders called movement disorders and the general characteristics of this condition are inflexibility of the muscles, tremor and the sluggishness of bodily movements called bradykiensia and eventually the loss of movements called akinesia. The initial symptoms are usually a result of the lack of dopamine which is what is manufactured in the brain by the dopaminergic neurons. As the disease worsens the patient suffers cognitive dysfunction and very mild language problems. This disease is not only a long term illness but is steadily progressive too.

Requip that contains ropinirole hydrochloride is an orally administered non-ergoline dopamine agonist. It is a medication that is most commonly used to treat various conditions like Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome. It is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline.

Requip helps the conditions by increasing the dopamine in the brain and manages to trick the nervous system into believing that there is more dopamine in the brain than there really is, thus helping to decrease the symptoms of both Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome.

This medication is available in tablet form. It is generally prescribed three times a day for patients with Parkinson’s disease and once a day, about couple of hours before bedtime for people with the restless leg syndrome. In both cases, see that this medication is taken along with some food so as to avoid nausea. Initially when you start on Requip you may experience nausea, giddiness, faintness and profuse sweating. To see that this is not too pronounced make sure that you do not try to stand up too quickly after being prone for a long time. If you want good results from Requip, you must take it regularly as prescribed. It will not work if you stop taking 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 jam e: What is the progression of Parkinson’s Disease?
My husband has just been diagnosed with the disease and I would like to know what to expect.

Best answer:

Answer by Mags
The best thing you can do is to keep on doing what you are doing to help yourself and your husband on this Parkinson’s journey. Learn as much as possible and keep questioning.

This is really a difficult question to answer because PD varies from patient to patient. The other reason is that we don’t know the symptoms your husband already manifested to get him to the doctor (motor-specialist neurologist) for the diagnosis.

I’m going to begin with some longer articles which you can read because they will have info which you might not expect and then I’ll provide the basic summary website urls.

To determine the average expectation check the Hohen and Yahr scale of progression here:

http://parkinsonsfocustoday.blogspot.com/2009/03/questions-about-parkinsons-disease-part_3744.html

If you scroll down that article you will find the Schwab & England Activities of Daily Living Scale. I think that one, although brief is very helpful for spouses of PWPs (People with Parkinson’s)
You will also find links to the UPDRS (Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale) and the revised scale MDS-UPDRS from the Movement Disorder Society.

What you can expect will depend upon:
1) The symptoms he currently displays
2) The medications he has been prescribed
3) His age and whether those meds are the best choices
4) Your medical coverage for prescription medications
5) Your medical coverage for additional therapies such as physical therapy, exercise/aqua therapy, massage therapy.
6) Your medical coverage for procedures such as DBS – deep brain stimulation/surgery should that become an option later
7) How willing your husband is to add the additional supplements he should also be taking (in our opinion) The depth of the support system which you both will need
9) The ability to laugh in the face of it all – laughter is great medicine – it eases pain by raising the endorphin levels and it keeps you sane.
10) The ability to interact with your medical support team – his ability to be proactive – to speak up – to question – and the medical team to listen – to consider – to discuss – to be open minded and honest with him.

At the site above you can chose the main page at the right column or scroll the index – by category to find answers to questions you didn’t even know you had. You will find basic discussions of treatments, medications in the pipeline and science news. You will find lifestyle aids and alternative therapies. Voice and swallowing exercises, chair exercises for keeping the rigidity at bay. You will also find listings for clinical trials which might be occuring near you.

Another helpful site is Patients Like Me where you can register (free) as a caregiver so that you can join the forums to share, read, ask questions.

http://www.patientslikeme.com/

Both my husband and I are members.

Here is the link to the National Institutes of Health website:

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/parkinsons_disease/detail_parkinsons_disease.htm

There is good basic information here.

What you should expect is that you will both need to affirm your love for each other and to communicate with each other. Some things are going to change along this jourrney and you will need that love to carry you along.

http://parkinsonsfocustoday.blogspot.com/2008/11/parkinsons-disease-is-no-day-trip.html

Please feel free to contact me through Yahoo Answers or Parkinson’s Focus Today “Contact Us”

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Image by Mal Cubed
There’s a long story behind that shiner.

Two, actually, and one of them involves a girl in a wheelchair with Parkinson’s Disease.

Unfortunately, only one of them is true.