 |
 |
I'm 75 and was diagnosed three years ago, although in retrospect I had symptoms long before then. I do pretty well on medication (sinemet, azilect, mirapex) but do find speech more difficult. Some stuttering, searching for words, long pauses, dropped voice volume. I've found that LSVT has helped that quite a bit, however. Alf On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Rayilyn Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Jim > > I am almost unable to speak. When my stimulators died I learned it was > due to PD AND the DBS stimulators, without them I still had trouble speaking > although it was not as bad. My new stimulators make the situation different > than it was with the older ones. I felt like I was strangling when I tried > to speak and "unpleasant" doesn't' do it justice, although it is difficult > to describe and impossible for anyone to understand what you go through. Now > it is still unpleasant but not quite as bad although I just quit talking > after awhile. > > Parkinson's has so many ways to make life intolerable and it bothers me > that other people cannot begin to get it. We don't look sick and if we're > not screaming bloody murder people think you are OK. > > Ray > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Jim Slattery" <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 6:28 PM > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Unable to speak > > > Has anyonr had this problem? Sometimes when I am bradyinetic (slowness of >> movement), I connot talk at all. or hardly at all. This called anarthria. >> It is a symptom of PD, and is caused by lack of muscle tone in the jaw >> muscles, tongue, larynx, and throat. But we don't know why it comes about. >> I would like tto ascertain how prevalent it is. For those of you wh may >> not have experienced it yetmm it is a most unpleasant symptom >> Dr J. Slattery PhD >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto: >> [log in to unmask] >> In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto: > [log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn