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I found an article that stated in small quantities it is good for Parkinson’s.

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My grandfather has parkinson’s and i have heard there are dogs that can be trained to help. please help me. i’m trying to learn as much about this as possible. if there are such dogs, do you know where to find them? and please only answer if you can actually help. Thanks in advance.

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My friends grandfather needs physical therapy to ease his pain from parkinson, but they have no money, I have always been great doing massage and I want to help them, just tell me what type of therapy and I will google it, I know is not the Professional way but it can’t be worse than the pain he is having, I just really want to help him, please help me to help him , please
I am sorry Amanda I don’t mean to be rude, but that is not what I asked…

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don’t they want to save lives?? isn’t that the point?? the embryos used in STR were going to be destroyed anyway. i would think a person labeled ‘pro-life’ would be supportive of a medicine that can cure some of the world’s most devastating diseases (cancer, alzheimer’s, parkinson’s, spinal cord trauma, diabetes, liver disease, etc.)

just trying to get people to understand their own labels

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I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s last year, although I’ve had it for about 7-8 years prior. I’m trying to find sites or boards that people interact productively and also provides additional concrete information. I am so used to researching other diseases that I have (such as cancer) that I have not done enough research on the one disease that is destroying me the most with devastating PAIN and life changes.

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I have CBD in the family of parkinson. I am want a equivalent treatment without this substance. This aspartane causes seizures.

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I am newly-diagnosed with Parkinson’s. I also note no feelings of joy that I used to have. Is the reduction in dopamine causing a reduction in positive feelings, as dopamine is associated with such feelings as joy and infatuation. Or is the dopamine lost in Parkinson’s unrelated to that function?

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My mother is in her early 60s and has gotten pretty emotionally attached to a neighbor (in his late 60s). She’s completely enamored by him and loves him, though I’m not certain how much he reciprocates. For the past year or so they’ve spent a good portion of every day together; he’s needed/wanted someone to take care of and my mom has needed/wanted someone to take care of, so they’ve been a good match. She’s made him dinner most nights, checks his mail for him and does his laundry (laundry room in the apartment complex), goes with him to his doctors appointments, and watches sports with him. They aren’t intimate (yes, she told me that), and I think physically they share little more than hugs, but my mother is still pretty "in love" with him to the point that she started wearing a little ring of hers on her wedding ring finger, sort of like an "I’m taken" symbol to the rest of the world or something.

Early this spring, this friend was admitted to the local behavioral rehabilitation center because, the story he told my mom, he was having negative reactions to some of his many medications. Before he was admitted he had been hallucinating, paranoia, tremors, and could barely gather enough strength to shuffle across the room. Putting on his shoes or writing or even lifting his feet off the ground were too difficult. He was in the behavioral health center for about a week before he was released and seemed to be okay after. (He has Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, bi-polar, and OCD, so he’s never really ‘great.’)

A few weeks ago he was admitted again to the behavioral rehab center because he hadn’t been taking his medications and was becoming confused, angry, irritable, was hallucinating again, and had been brought back home by the police because he was out wandering pretty unaware. My mom was on the phone with a friend when he went into her apartment and said/did something that scared her. She says she wasn’t scared, but at the time she was enough to give her friend the number to the police department so she could call and report what was going on. He spent a week or so in the behavioral rehab center and was then transferred to the state mental hospital (short term stay, not lock-away-the-loonies, but still a psychiatric hospital. He’s been there for a couple of weeks while they’ve been re-working his medications (something about taking him down from 25 pills per day to 6 per day) and deciding if he’s able to live on his own. They’re releasing him Monday, apparently.

The night he was taken into the behavioral center a few weeks ago, my mother felt upset enough that she took a razor blade to her inner arm and thumb and did a pretty major cutting session. (She’s never done that before, obviously, though she has never been very emotionally stable.) I just can’t bring myself to be entirely supportive of this relationship, but I’m unsure about where I should draw the line about what I’m willing to let go and not comment on and what I should step in about. My mom does have some mental difficulties, can’t drive because her reactions are too slow, struggles to balance her check book, and has never had a romantic relationship where she wasn’t being manipulated or verbally abused or genuinely taken advantage of; it’s not like she’s a totally normally functioning adult who is completely capable of making great decisions about this. So, what kinds of things would you suggest I not be concerned about and when should I step in and stop being supportive? Slightly related, would I be justified in opting out of picking him up when he’s released on Monday and making him find some other friend who can? My mom doesn’t drive, but he asked her if I can go pick her up and then pick him up. Ugh!

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My mother got her diagnosis a few years ago. She has all the symptoms of Parkinson’s except the tremors. She is on Requip and Carba Leva Dova (spelling ?). Although, initially, we thought it helped. However, now it seems to make things worse. We have spoken to the neurologist, but he seems to let it go in one ear and out the other. He upped her dosage. For the first two days, we saw signs of improvement. Then, things got worse.
She had polio when she was a child and we know this has an effect on her. It was in her leg. Her balance is horrible. She falls frequently. However, until Feb "08, she was perfectly capable of caring for herself, unassisted. Then she fell and broke her hip. It has been a huge downward spiral since then.
She has very little to no judgment. She is completely incapable of making rational decisions. She is somewhat forgetful, but not to the point we think she has Alzheimer. However, her father who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, was the same way. He also had dementia. We noticed far more problems with his dementia than Alzheimer’s.
We are certain though he had far more problems as well. They both are very similar in actions. He was 83 when he died. She is 64.
We do constantly remind her of judgment things such as, "mom you can’t have your hands full when you push your walker. You will fall". Or "mom, you have to uncross your legs to get up".
I’ve noticed a severe decrease in physical activity. She fell yesterday and would NOT allow me to help her up. She has VERY little muscle tone left. Her appetite has increased immensely.
When it is time for her meds, she appears drunk. Her eyes roll, she has a blank stare, and is completely immobile. Once her meds take affect, she is back. We have forbidden her to drive because of her lack of judgment. There is so much more detail I could offer, but want to keep it short and to the point in hopes of help. I will answer any other questions. We have no idea what else we can do and are certain with her decline over the last 18 months, she will be bed ridden in less than a year.

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Drs. have said tests for Parkinson’s are negative. Anyone else have any experience with this? He is former smoker, never consumed alcohol of any kind. The older he gets, the worse it is becoming.

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