Parkinson's Disease?

Anyone gone through a family member with Parkinson's Disease? How does it end?

I have Parkinson's disease (early onset as I am 33 years old). I started having symptoms about about 5 years ago, but I was misdiagnosed for so many years. I don't think that you actually die from the Parkinson's disease. But you do get progressively worse as the years go on.

I HAVE EARLY ONSET PARKINSON'S . THE NORMAL PROGRESSION ENDS WITH THE PATIENT DYING OF ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA. SWALLOWING BECOMES MORE DIFFICULT AND THE PATIENT CHOKES ON SOMETHING INHALING IT INTO THE LUNGS AND USUALLY DIES OF THE RESULTILNG INFECTION. Report It

Parkinson's disease is a terrible condition.
Unfortunately there is no known cure for it yet.
It will eventually incapacite you and you will die but usually not from the parkinsons but from something else

Depends on the person and in what decade they start to show symptoms and how fast it progresses. Some patients live for decades... others fade in 5 years. Unless something else gets you first, Parkinsons disease usually ends in death by either heart failure or asphyxiation. Besides muscle tremor, loss of muscular control is also part of the disease.That is why their gait (stature while walking) is so stiff. At some point in time the diaphram which is in control of breathing also paralizes so little air can be exchanged. That stress and duress on the heart is fatal and if not then lack of Oxygen is.

There are a variety of medications that help to reduce symptoms by exciting the neurons that are still alive work harder to make up the difference for the others that have died. There are also stimulation devices that use electrical current to do the same thing. Bottom line though...anything that person wanted to do in life should be done now rather than later as body muscular control reduces as time goes on.

Good luck