Not to Happy

[Starwarsthe]

well hi everyone I went to see my neurologist and after a ten minute assessment my Dr said that I have pspand not Parkinson’s so if I was diagnosed back in 2017 that 6 years does anyone know how long people who has pap live thank u all for reading

Glen

[RosieLadyDaisy]

was your doctor’s diagnosis based on an MRI scan cos that’s the only way to see whether it’s PSP, Parkinson’s or something else. If not then please arrange to have one! PSP is a build-up of a protein called tau which can be seen on an MRI.

[Sun-flowerwearer in reply to RosieLadyDaisy]

I have to disagree here. An MRI may show signs that suggest PSP and it may not. It is just one of several things the movement disorder specialists consider when diagnosing and even when best guess is PSP it cannot actually be definite without a brain autopsy after death. In my husbands case the MRI ruled out other things like stroke and Alzheimer’s but didnt show PSP… for my husband it was the eye movement tests, the fixed gaze, deterioration of speech, balance etc