With PD do the hands always shake or could it just be the arms? And do they always shake or at different times?
My cousin recently consulted with a Neurologist for her significant dementia. Since then she has fallen several times, her legs have become weak and stiff and her arms have been shaking. It looked like the entire arm and not just the hand. Sometimes the arms aren't shaking.
I keep wondering about PD, but she doesn't have the shuffle walk that is associated with PD either, though it's because her legs are so still she can barely move them.
We are waiting word from the MRI now.
I did notice that her legs that lately she can barely move were very limber on Sunday. She was moving them back and forth and scooting around in her wheelchair by using her feet and legs. How can they be so stiff one minute and so flexible the next?
I'm now thinking she may have something else. I do hope the neurologist calls me soon.
I think she may have lost her sense of smell. She has lost her appetite and hardly eats anything. She has no interest in going to the dining room. She has even refused fried chicken I took her once.
I'm not there at night, but I think she sleeps okay. I know she likes to sleep late and it's a problem for them to get her out of bed on some days. She also likes to nap during the day. If not encouraged to stay up, she would sleep most of the day. She's also lost interest in watching tv and listening to her radio, which she normally loved.
She will sit with the others and listen to the local performers who come and sing and she will visit with the other residences in the family room, but she has little to say, thought the other residents don't have much to say either.
She had the MRI last week and today the doctor's office said he had to review it and then he would call me.
I'm not sure what to expect. She's getting more weak, off balance, and confused. She's pleasant most of the time, but quite anxious and very emotional. Her memory is also declining by the week. Her appetite is poor too.
Yesterday is when I noticed her arms were trembling for no apparent reason. Later they weren't.
I've looked at some videos of patients with PD, but I don't think that's how hers appeared.
If someone was diagnosed with PD, would they have no physical outward symptoms 10 years later? This question is regarding a different person I know, not my cousin.