Help my mother live in dignity with Parkinson's Disease

This is the proof needed that her symptoms although looking like Parkinson’s Disease really are.

So far she’s not fallen over, been able to step backwards without freezing, her writing has become larger and she’s not doing everything in slow motion (not up to full speed yet but it’s all progress).

This is faster than I hoped to see improvements. I look forward to seeing what else happens with these L-Dopa tablets.

I went to the hospital with Mum for her first appointment for her falling and balance problems and she has a vast number of the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease in their classic form. Not sure how long she’s had it (possibly a few years) but her daily life is now being affected by this (she loses her balance 15-20 times per day but doesn’t always fall to the ground).

She started the L-dopa medication today and we’ll find out in a couple of weeks how well she’s doing with it. We should hopefully see some improvement quickly and then we’ll take it from there.

Something surprising that I didn’t know was that 30% of people with Parkinson’s Disease don’t ever get the tremors – if she’d had tremors I think that we’d have sought treatment earlier. Every symptom she has we have managed to attribute to some event or other cause – the falling/shuffling gait/stooped posture we put down to her being very tired caring full time for my father (who had a major stroke).