Question???

[bhurley]

Just Curious: My Parkinson's started right after I was put under for knee surgery. Was out for about 2.5 hours. Was always a healthy man until that time. Could there be a connection here? Very concerned......By the way knee surgery didn't work.

[RS313]

Hello bhurley

My Parkinsons started right after a minor surgery as well.They actually thought i had a stroke but later realized it was the onset of my Parkinsons

[glenandgerry]

My husband was diagnosed 2005. He's had two total knee replacement surgeries, 2008 & 2014. His PD symptoms were worse after each surgery but gradually he came back to how he was beforehand. The 2nd surgery (on his worse affected side) was not quite as successful as the first.

He had spinal surgery in June this year which unfortunately hasn't worked & from which he hasn't bounced back, and he's still in a lot of pain.

[LAJ12345]

My husband had knee surgery too. It seems a common symptom. I put it down to gait being slightly unsymmetrical causing knee problems. Could be wrong. Either that or anaesthetic causing a reaction?

[bhijy]

My PD showed up right after i had Prostate surgery which seems to be quite common to.

[freefallmode]

Some theories link use of antibiotics and gut microbiome to parkinsonism. Don't know if that's relevant to your surgery..

[LuckyLuke]

Maybe you can find a theory that can make sense with your knee surgery here:

janicehadlock.com/

You need to have some basic knowledge of Meridian Channels in chinese medicine. Surgery in the legs (hip and/or knee) may lead to a 'bad' pattern closing or make some channels malfunction. Just a theory, but interesting reading. Hope this helps!

[jrg54321]

I tore my meniscus in my right knee in the fall of 2015. Had knee surgery that winter. At my follow up appointment I asked my orthopedist why my right hand was shaking. He told me to see a neurologist. At that appointment in the spring of 2016 I was diagnosed with pd. I didn't even know what pd was at the time.

I was pretty sure after diagnosis that it happened due to the knee surgery because it was such a big change in my life. After I learned more about pd I realized the symptoms had begun years earlier. Loss of smell, swallowing problems, lack of expressions, loss of fluidity of movement on my right side. My latest thinking three years later is that my not being able to react fast enough while doing T-25 caused me to damage my meniscus. Call it extreme weekend warrior syndrome.

[rideabike]

I also had surgeries...knee and then thyroid, 3 surgeries in 2 1/2 years. It was after the thyroid surgery that things went downhill so I attributed it to losing the gland but my levels are good now. I've read on HU PD sometimes happens after surgery as a result of the anaesthesia, maybe, in that it speeds things up? Too many incidents for coincidence I believe.

[Basih101]

My husband's PD showed up after having neck surgery (approximately 2 months later).

[Horselover]

My tremor started after the flue jab. I had refused to have it but I got pressurised into having it. Within a day or two the tremor started in my left foot. Of course the doctors said its just a coincidence. One got very stroppy with me when I refused it a couple of years ago. Anyone else had the same problem?

[Zella23]

My husband started symptoms of Parkinson’s a few months after taking blood pressure medication he was 60 and had hardly ever been ill apart from a slipped disc many years before that. The symptoms came on gradually over 4 years and he was Dx in 2015. I asked the Neuro if they could have been the cause and he said coincidence but I m not so sure! I ve done loads of research on this subject and I m quite certain this may have altered something in his ‘body chemistry’. I know lots of people take similar drugs and are fine but it was too much of a coincidence for me.

[rescuema]

For one thing, your body will dump potassium due to the stress related to surgery. If nutritionally or mineral depleted already and potassium level tends to drop as you get older, this could possibly lead to disturbance in the physiological homeostasis or mitochondrial damage (also drugs and antibiotics induced). If you haven't already, probably a good idea to supplement with thiamine and potassium citrate.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/268...

[DianeF]

My symptoms appeared within 3 days of my knee replacement! Everyone who knows me says I am not the person I was prior to surgery. I felt like I had been poisoned as well; nauseous, dizzy, tearful, for months. I believe it was the anesthesia and the multiple anti nausea medications they gave me. I have met numerous other folks with Parkinson’s who report similar onset following surgery. It would make for a good study.

[Rosenmu]

I started having symptoms a year or so before I was diagnosed, so no surgery trigger at that time. I have read that certain things can trigger PD to manifest after lying undetected. I really feel my PD was caused from toxins and gut issues, multiple antibiotic sessions and various surgeries years before my diagnosis.

[Pats68]

I've read of many people whose Parkinson's manifested itself soon after a traumatic event. Mine was two back surgeries in twelve months.

[tryit]

I was diagnosed 6mo after knee replaced, not sure about tie-in.

[tryit]

Don't know the connection but was diagnosed 8 mo after knee replacement.