[Gerardo Olivares]

Compton California

[Gerardo Olivares]

Yes, I am interested.

I was diagnosed with PD in 2010, but going back I started to have symptoms around 2007 but my coworkers and friends noticed something wrong on my body movements like swinging my right arm and shuffling my right foot and I feel like dizziness during the day and every day and one day at work I had a episode of vertigo and I was taken to the hospital in a ambulance because I didn’t know what it was days after I had panic attacks and I tough that I was having a heart attack but it wasn’t. I was getting scared because my heart was running so fast and I was confused until the doctor at Er told me how was a heart attack. I was diagnosed because after finishing my yard work my right hand shakes and I couldn’t stopped so after a few tests from my primary doctor he sent me to the neurologist and I couldn’t believed it I was 48 and I tough that only older people get it (PD) I went into depression for 2 years, no friends, no fun just work home and home work and sleep now understand that was my worst mistake ever. I went to Mexico looking for better opinions but 4 doctors different cities same diagnosis.

June 2014 I went to Parkinson’s event and I learned that I have to live  trying to be the same. I’m trying but I don’t like people looking at me like feeling pity or pass by and I  can feel that they are looking at me I stopped working 3 years ago because the medication made me feel sleepy and I couldn’t drive safely and my job mostly was driving doing deliveries and I fall sleep driving a couple times and I decided to stopped and not take the risks .

I have a new doctor and next week I will have my 2nd visit but I feel different because she sent me to physical therapy and speech therapy and I hope she will modify my dose. Cause I feel that I don’t taking enough meds cause mostly in the morning I having freezing episodes and sleep problems but we’ll see

thanks in advance and I know that I’m not alone

[Gerardo Olivares]

Hi

I know that is hard to accept the diagnosis cause I had depression for 2 years until found out that the life has to continue trying to be normal. Doing exercises and living one day at the time my life has changed drastically since I was diagnosed 14 years ago my Parkinson’s is been changed Last 3 months and I don’t know what I did wrong until the grade that my meds not working like usually do. You not alone somewhere is a person suffering worse than us .l don’t know if this makes sense to you and I am sorry for not write a good essay but I didn’t pass writing in the school.

Let me tell you something about what helped me to get out of the depression was that i went to a. Convention of Parkinson’s from Michael j. Fox and I Learned that we not alone

Find the next event if you can attend it this is going to help you a lot