First symptom?

[Leathan]

If you were all asked to hark back and establish what your first symptom was which alerted you to PD , then what would you say? Tremor,fatigue,stiffness,memory,smell,sl eep?


Leathan.....

[dbiker2]

twitch in thumb on right hand.

[Carole]

The index finger on my right hand was tapping away. My little brother reached over and held it down, telling me it was "driving him crazy. Didn't it bother me?" I said I didn't even notice it anymore (that was at my son's baptism.) That was 17 years ago.
Carole

[Carole]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Pelicangirl:
and he sent me to a neurologist.

When I look back though, my husband was the one who noticed it several years before that, not having any idea it was a sign of Parkinson's. He noticed that I didn't swing my right arm when I walked. It wasn't anything that bothered me and I thought "so what?" Then later I found out that was an early sign.

Ruth,
My husband had noticed the exact same thing about me. Neither one of us knew what it meant. He'd noticed my hand looked like a claw after walking a while as well and it "bothered" him.
Carole

[Betty H]

Same story here, about 7+ years ago, we would go for a walk & my husband would say,"why aren't you swinging your right arm, you carry it like it's broken?" I remember telling him, I didn't know, but when I forced myself, it felt like I was swinging someone else arm. Not that it was numb, it just felt "funny". That was the descripive word I used when I went to the neurologist for the first time, complaining of my right arm, ache, tingling, stiff and just felt different, felt "funny".
About the same time, I noticed my hand writing, which had always been small,was even smaller and even I had trouble reading it. Little did we know what was in store for us. Now that we think back, probably like the rest of you, we feel like I had PD at least 2-3 years before the diagnosis.
Betty H

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