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<blockquote data-quote="Ruth B" data-source="post: 624747" data-attributes="member: 111960"><p>Parkinsons is a horrible degenerative disease, and unlike diabetes there is very little that a person can do to control it themselves. As far as I am aware they still don't know why some people have it and others don't and whether there is a genetic connection (something his daughters might need to be made aware of), the hereditery possibility scares the daylights out of me but there is no test that I know of.</p><p></p><p>You might want to join the Parkinsons UK website. My parents have found it really useful for information and there is a forum there, hopefully the people there would be as supportive and as informative as the ones here are on diabetes. </p><p></p><p>The other one to mention, I would assume that your husband is seeing a specialist nurse if not try and get a referral. Unlike some of the Diabetic nurses i read about, the specialist my Father sees has help a great deal and has balanced his medication to help control the symptoms but not to send him to sleep too much. Some of the medication can cause drowsyness and irregular sleep patterns.</p><p></p><p>I'm no expert, try the website, (google Parkinsons UK and it should come up) and hopefully they can help their with that problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruth B, post: 624747, member: 111960"] Parkinsons is a horrible degenerative disease, and unlike diabetes there is very little that a person can do to control it themselves. As far as I am aware they still don't know why some people have it and others don't and whether there is a genetic connection (something his daughters might need to be made aware of), the hereditery possibility scares the daylights out of me but there is no test that I know of. You might want to join the Parkinsons UK website. My parents have found it really useful for information and there is a forum there, hopefully the people there would be as supportive and as informative as the ones here are on diabetes. The other one to mention, I would assume that your husband is seeing a specialist nurse if not try and get a referral. Unlike some of the Diabetic nurses i read about, the specialist my Father sees has help a great deal and has balanced his medication to help control the symptoms but not to send him to sleep too much. Some of the medication can cause drowsyness and irregular sleep patterns. I'm no expert, try the website, (google Parkinsons UK and it should come up) and hopefully they can help their with that problem. [/QUOTE]
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