Remember that April is Parkinson's Awarness Month!

Remember that April is Parkinson's Awarness Month!

Monday, December 20, 2010

I think I might have Parkinson's

Hello everyone,  today I am going to diagnose myself.  I think I have Parkinson's.  I say that because, I guess I have left a lot of things out that I just thought were stupid and not important to tell anyone about.  Okay, so here are the things that I thought were too stupid to tell the doctor(s) about...

1. I get choked very easily, this started about a month or so ago.  I get choked in the shower more times than I can remember, the last time my daughter was in the bathroom talking to me, it scared her.  She asked what happened and I couldn't remember.  I didn't black out or pass out, I just think I forgot where I was or something, I'm still not sure what happened.

2. I can't drink with out it spilling down my chin about a good four or five times before I can drink anything and I have seriously thought about switching to straws only.

3.  I have a sudden urge out of the middle of no where to go pee.  Sometimes it hits me, right after I already went.  I didn't know that this is also important to tell the doctor.  Maybe I just thought that I had a lot more to drink than normal when it happens.  I don't think so.

4. It's hard for me to remember things.  I have to repeat it at least a dozen times and maybe even then I will still forget.

5.  The tremors or what I call twitching happens all over and when I mean all over, I mean it.  It gets better when I move.  I can move and won't feel anything, I use to think it was because my mind was off of the movements.  I can be driving in the car and the leg that I don't use for the brake will twitch.  Sometimes they are stronger than others and sometimes they even scare me.  I get them in my legs, shoulders, ribs, butt, thighs, and ear.  When I move it disappears.  Which is kind of embarrassing when you want to show someone and it doesn't do it anymore.

6.My speech is all messed up.  I say things backwards or mess up the meaning or just can't put what I want to say altogether.  Sometimes I pause in mid sentence trying to figure out where I was going with what I wanted to say and then I might even switch topics altogether.

7.  I get aggravated more easily than I use to. 

8.  Just yesterday I noticed that my legs felt tired, almost heavy.  This is new to m because I had never had that feeling before.

9. I am cold, I feel as if I am freezing, even when my husband tells me my hands are warm, this too is fairly new.  I am the type of person that gets cold easily, but never like this.

10.  Since yesterday I don't like chocolate.  I tried to eat some and to me it was nasty, I spit out a good four pieces.

11.  I don't put all the letters in or I hit the wrong keys.  Thank God for spell check!

12. I get more confused easier than I use to.  Simple things.

13.  My handwriting has changed.  Sometimes I write like me and other times I write like a child, then it will look totally different and sometimes small, sometimes big.  My signature has changed sometimes too.

Okay this is the list I think I need to take with me to the doctor, if I can remember to print it up.  Everyone else has tried to diagnose me and so I figured I would give it a try for myself.  Thanks for reading.  God Bless!

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