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My Neurologist recommended a local group in my area and i was attending for a while. It wasn’t what I was expecting. It was basically a lot like what you find on face book a lot of information which… read more
It brain surgery
I will do ultrasound indyu
Stead
I’m all recovered. I’ve had my first programming appointment. Everything is going well.
what is the rate of sucess for this surgey
Don,t think about it anymore, just do it.
Generally it is done when a person has had Parkinson's for a few years and the tremors and/or dyskinesia are interfering with daily life.
My husband had it about 2 years ago, 10 years after diagnosis. It helped a LOT with rigidity, dyskinesia and general feeling like himself. It cut his meds by half. A friend followed suit and it did… read more
Would insurance pay or pay most of DBS.
They payed for mine.
Wow! I had my DBS ,about a year ago February. Before surgery I had my surgery I had a tremors in my right hand. And I was sliding my feet across the floor. After no tremors, and the walking showed… read more
After dbs surgery a period of one month thereafter i experienced depressive symptoms. After switcging off the right-hand side stimulation the depressive symptoms as well as lack of appetite disappeared. But obviously motion stimulator which was working very well, stopped working . Has anybody experienced the same and is there a setting that would work to stop the depressive stimulation as well as not affecting by appetite.
Exactly what is DBS?
