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Do I just read stages to determine this?

July 2, 2023
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A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

Read this about stages https://www.parkinson.org/understanding-parkins...
Decide for yourself what stage you are in or talk to your Dr and ask. But does it really matter?
If you have Parkinson’s disease (PD), you may wonder how your condition will unfold. You might want to know what symptoms you might have, when they’ll start, and how they’ll affect your life. These are basic questions. But PD doesn’t move in a straight line, and it’s hard to pin down exactly how it’ll progress.

You may not get all the symptoms. And you can’t predict how bad they’ll be, or how fast they’ll get worse. One person may have slight tremors but severe dementia. Another might have major tremors but no issues with thinking or memory. And someone else may have severe symptoms all around.

On top of that, the drugs that treat Parkinson’s work better for some people than others. All that adds up to a disease that’s very hard to predict.

July 2, 2023
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

Your answer helps me so much. When I see certain things getting worse, I want specific answers and I know it's a disease that's hard to predict.

July 2, 2023

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