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Looking Back - Your Early Warning Signs
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There are non motor symptoms with no tremors
apparent that can precede obvious movement disorder.
Balance unsteadiness of gait, orthostatic low blood pressure ,lack of measured heart rate variability, insomnia, ED and atypical sweat changes are some.
There are new tests of skin samples to show alpha synuclein that may assist in earlier diagnosis.
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Basically my husband really doesn’t have any problems with motor skills. He was diagnosed about 7 years ago. Yes, he had dreams that he would act out. Some pretty amazing ones at that. Unfortunately I got punched a couple of times. When I would wake him to stop, his dreams were so vivid to him. He would tell me in detail what was going on. Stiffness and muscle soreness is his biggest problem. No tremors, which I always associated with PD. His saving grace, is a rigorous workout 5 days a week, at a gym that only has PD people. It’s amazing how his consistent working out has slowed his progress. When he doesn’t go (illness, etc) he can feel the difference. Good luck.