Symptoms
Symptoms of PD begin mildly. They will worsen over time.
Symptoms include:
- "Pill-rolling" tremor in the hands
- Tremors are present at rest, improve with movement, and are absent during sleep
- Stiffness and rigidity of muscles, usually beginning on one side of the body
- Difficulty and shuffling when walking
- Short steps
- Slowness of purposeful movements
- Trouble performing usual tasks, due to shaking in hands
- Trouble speaking
- Flat, monotonous voice
- Stuttering
- Shaky, spidery handwriting
- Poor balance
- Difficulty with rising from a sitting position
- “Freezing”
- Anxiety
- Seborrhea (a skin problem that causes a red rash and white scales)
- Loss of smell
- Tendency to fall
- Stooped posture
- Increasingly mask-like face, with little variation in expression
- Trouble chewing and swallowing
- Depression
- Dementia
- Difficulty thinking, problems with memory
- Decreased sense of smell
- Sleep problems such as REM-behavior disorder
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