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[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

My thought exactly.

I heart this thread because it's a carbon copy of the other thread I read. Except no uber-conservative has barged in, defending Rush, quoting Ann Coulter and spewing out the futility of embryonic stem cell research yet. We'll give it some time.

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Correct me if I'm wrong centaur, but if he does NOT take his medicine he can actually lock up where it would be almost impossible to speak or move. Especially not quickly. If he in fact chose to not take his medicine while speaking in front of a group he risks a more dramatic demonstration of the effects of Parkinsons because he'll just stop functioning. So if he WAS moving, it's the medicines.

If you watched him on Scrubs (playing an OCD doctor) you could still tell even though they have multiple takes and angles. And there he was acting as a doctor without twitches.

This I don't know. I've only recently come into knowledge about Parkinson's and the treatments. I am a huge medical nerd so any info I can gather pleases me.

I dont know about another thread of this nature but i can tell you coming from someone who has dealt w ith parkinsons for 5 yrs you skip one round of meds it will throw your body into shakes like a woman has hot flahses daily. My grand dad had it and his shaking was controlled by the meds but honestly there were days when he did take it and still would get the shakes. Thats not acting believe me. I have seen it up close in my grand dad and i saw it up close in a professor in college. the shakes are not some shiver.....they are violently hurtful things and soemtimes scary to watch! I use to take my grand dads hands when he would have an attack and hold them and try to get him to focus eye to eye with me to help him thru it but they are wild spasms that need meds to control because there is no other way to really c ontrol them without meds. If Limbaugh says he is acting someone needs to take h im out back and give him a good lynching.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by cutiepatootie

I dont know about another thread of this nature but i can tell you coming from someone who has dealt w ith parkinsons for 5 yrs you skip one round of meds it will throw your body into shakes like a woman has hot flahses daily. My grand dad had it and his shaking was controlled by the meds but honestly there were days when he did take it and still would get the shakes. Thats not acting believe me. I have seen it up close in my grand dad and i saw it up close in a professor in college. the shakes are not some shiver.....they are violently hurtful things and soemtimes scary to watch! I use to take my grand dads hands when he would have an attack and hold them and try to get him to focus eye to eye with me to help him thru it but they are wild spasms that need meds to control because there is no other way to really c ontrol them without meds. If Limbaugh says he is acting someone needs to take h im out back and give him a good lynching.

I didn't mean to imply that the parkinson's tremors were not horrific, just that they look very different from what's seen in the ad. Parkinson's is a terrible disease and people should see how it ravages the body. A lot of people think it's just some shaking when that's only a small part of it.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by centaur532

I heart this thread because it's a carbon copy of the other thread I read. Except no uber-conservative has barged in, defending Rush, quoting Ann Coulter and spewing out the futility of embryonic stem cell research yet. We'll give it some time.



This I don't know. I've only recently come into knowledge about Parkinson's and the treatments. I am a huge medical nerd so any info I can gather pleases me.

Well, I do know that the medication is the reason why he is able to speak and move around in a coherent manner. If you watched him being interviewed a year or two ago on that huge special (by Dianne Sawyer I believe) you could tell he was really really heavily medicated. When he adressed congress unmedicated he could barely get a sentence out or stay seated in his chair.