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Which is where I'll be headed in a decade or two, a definite case of early-onset Parkinson's!
 
I have alot of the subtler symptoms. Distorted smells, phantom pains, numbness and tingling, and occasional tremors. I'm still really young too.
 
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Which is where I'll be headed in a decade or two, a definite case of early-onset Parkinson's!
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Ooof. My uncle had Parkinson's. Based on his diagnosis being made over forty years ago, and despite health care from the VA, still ambulatory into his seventies; and dying of the usual American vascular disease, plus your own vastly superior health knowledge, your timeline sounds like a poor estimate--it has a glacial pace sometimes.
 
He's talking nerve degeneration scrof, which honestly he and I are both experiencing to some degree already, or the doc wouldn't be talking that diagnosis.

It is a rather uncertain timeline however, some people do well for years, others degenerate very quickly.
 
I was trying to be positive, and sensitive, I thought it was a fresh finding, and I left out an Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome + Parkinson's joke.

Look, my uncle had a full life, though there was major impairment at the end; his treatment was not the best, even for the time. But he kept on at the fucking lumberyard, sliding wood into that monster saw thing, even with a tremor that was up his arms. He retired early, but not by much, and then kept up home carpentry for quite a while. Went to the gym, for weights, since cardio was too difficult, in his seventies. Diagnosis in his thirties.

So things aren't as bleak as they seem.
 
Thanks for the consideration scrof, didn't mean to be cross, not feeling well today.

Things can seem quite bleak, both of my parents, my grandfather, and half brother all had/have neurological disorders. But my insight into it is that attitude is a huge factor. My grandfather lived 20 years after his diagnosis, my dad was diagnosed with huntingtons a few years ago, and he just kind of gave up, he's rapidly deteriorating.
 
Indeed it can be quite a scary thing to see something like that first hand but a good attitude goes a long way.

I <3 all my BL friends
 
Good thoughts make you want to fight for the possibility of being better.

I care very much for all of mine as well, alot of good people on here.
 
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