Non motor or motor symptoms has great impact on PD

Non motor or motor symptoms has great impact on PD?

It is increasingly recognised that the non-motor effects of PD including depression and cognitive dysfunction can have a greater impact on patients' quality of life.

I agree. I can deal with the tremors and the dyskinesias; it is the neuropathies - the pain in my hands and feet - and the depression, that have a greater impact on me at this timelity of life than the movement symptoms


While that may be very true, I have more difficulty accepting not being able to write/print legibly and using the keyboard is becoming more and more difficult. At the same time, my vocal functions are decreasing as well.........voice is soft, words are sometimes slurred, occasionaly I have difficulty with swallowing and choking. I am very lucky NOT to have the pain so many of you have to deal with. Even tho, basically pain free, do not discount the loss of functions so many people take for grant


I think they are equal in impact. The difference in degree is of impact individually. I may not have pain and dystonia, but I do have major depression, dibilitating tremor, as well as profuse sweating...just to begin with. We ALL have some degree of lose of function. It is just differnet in each of us. And the difference isn lose of functon is not even the same; e.g. timing of lose from dx date

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