DBS and freezing...does the surgery help control freezing episodes?.My MDS says no.just wondered if anyone had any success.

[ivyanne]

[JohnPepper]

Freezing is quite easy to overcome! I am not a doctor, but I have knowingly had Pd for twenty years and have lived with Pd symptoms for fifty years. I overcame freezing by first of all, stopping trying to will my legs to move. Then I moved my weight onto one leg and then lifted the other leg in the air by bending the knee. I then started to walk. It is as simple as that. We Parkinson's patients have to consciously control our walking. Our subconscious mind is no longer able to control our walking properly.

Where do you live? If you live close to me, I will willingly show you how to do it. If not, you can purchase my book, "Reverse Parkinson's Disease", in which I show you how to overcome all the movement problems and some of the autonomic problems of Pd. I am 79 years of age and now live a perfectly normal life, without any Pd medication.

[camper in reply to JohnPepper]

Please let me know where you live. I too suffer with freezing all day long and would do anything to live a normal life! Also where do I get your book and how much is it?

[JohnPepper]

Hi Camper

I live in South Africa. You can get my book from Amazon.com or from my website, reverseparkinsons.net. Where do you live?

[camper in reply to JohnPepper]

I live in England.Have just sent for your book through Amazon.

[soup]

There are two positions for DBS and one of them is better for freezing than the other. Electrodes in the Pedunculopontine Nucleus (PPN) might help with Freezing and falls.

Are you freezing when 'on' or 'off'? Have you tried Conductive Education for your freezing with cueing and strategies to move the thought processes to the conscious level rather than the sub conscious? Have a look at this document from Parkinson's UK. parkinsons.org.uk/sites/def...

[ivyanne in reply to soup]

Thanks to those who offered info on DBS and freezing.. soup..I mostly freeze when my meds are 'on'. I have tried many cues and am now using a U step. walker with a laser beam..it works as long as I concentrate on my feet and don't get distracted .......but doorways are still my. enemy

[Pelley]

Even the Neuro's can't specifically tell you why DBS works....

I had it done 3 years ago and after a year of post surgical infections and reversals, re-implantings I can tell you I would do it again! It has taken some time to adjust and get the right settings, but I haven't "frozen" in many months. PD's symptoms change so easily, that is the major problem with the rigidity of the implant system.

It would be okay if I lived with a medtronics programmer!! (just sayin')

[Pete-1]

I know of a couple of people from the USA who have had DBS implants. Before which everything would freeze except their eyeballs.for several hours at a time several times per week. Freezing no longer happens to them.

[quirkyme]

I'm getting tired and annoyed with commercials in these postings.

I call on the moderator should stop this.

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