Parkinson’s Disease: 10 Symptoms Beyond ‘Shaking, Stiff, and Slow’

In addition to the main symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, patients may also have some other symptoms, including: 1. Speech disorder: the patient’s speech ability is affected and the voice is low, difficult to pronounce the words, slurred and so on. 2.Difficulty in swallowing: difficulty in eating and swallowing, drooling, easy to choke and cough when drinking. 3.Oily face: excessive secretion of skin oil. 4, swollen joints: Parkinson’s disease patients sometimes have swelling of the lower limbs, mainly in the feet, and in severe cases, it will spread to the lower legs. Usually on the side of the lower limb that first appears to be impaired. Swelling in the feet is more likely to be seen in those patients with significant motor delays. It usually lessens or disappears after evening sleep, but becomes progressively worse again during the day. The reason for this is due to the lack of activity in Parkinson’s disease patients, who cannot squeeze venous blood to the heart through leg movement and muscle contraction, causing venous blood to stagnate in the venous vessels and tissue fluid to extravasate, resulting in swelling of the feet and ankles. 5, weight loss: research found that nearly 70% of Parkinson’s bin to patients have weight loss, due to muscle stiffness, tremor and other motor symptoms consume more physical energy, dysphagia, depression and other factors caused by eating less, resulting in wasting, malnutrition, anemia and so on. 6, urinary incontinence: some patients with Parkinson’s disease often have to go to the bathroom several times a day, especially at night, and as a result, lead to insomnia. The occurrence of the above situations is often related to poor control of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Anti-Parkinson’s disease treatment reduces the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease while the symptoms of the bladder are also improved. If through the anti-Parkinson’s disease treatment, the symptoms are still not improved, should consider whether the combination of inflammation of the urinary system, prostate hypertrophy. 7, impaired sexual ability: sexual activity is a very complex psychological and physiological process, from the simplest reflexes to highly complex nervous system activities are related to sexual function, so any organic and functional damage to the nervous system will affect sexual function. The reduction of dopamine in the brain and physical symptoms in Parkinson’s disease patients can affect sexual function. In addition to the body’s own disease, the person’s psychological activity to a large extent determines this sexual function, depression is the most important reason for sexual dysfunction in most Parkinson’s disease patients at the beginning of the disease. 8, often doze off: about 30% of Parkinson’s disease patients with daytime sleepiness, and to use levodopa long time often, high dose, hallucinations, the disease late in the majority. There are many reasons for daytime sleepiness in patients with Parkinson’s disease, and nighttime insomnia is also the main reason for daytime sleepiness. 9, emotional depression, anxiety: Parkinson’s disease patients about 40% ~ 55% of depression and 19.8% ~ 67% anxiety and other emotional disorders, mainly manifested as easy fatigue, reduced initiative, reduced interest, loss of appetite, sleep disorders, low self-evaluation, guilt, reduced attention and emotional instability, and serious suicidal ideation or even suicide. 10, stubborn constipation: Parkinson’s disease patients with constipation for more reasons, there is a reduction in gastrointestinal peristalsis, abdominal muscle contraction and eating and drinking less, and other thought that the neuronal degeneration of the mesenteric plexus leads to choline insufficiency. In addition, anticholinergics and other anti-Parkinson’s do not give you drugs will make the intestinal peristalsis function decreased, thus having aggravated constipation.