What are the symptoms of late-stage Parkinson's?

Parkinson's disease is a common disease that usually occurs in middle-aged and elderly people. However, there is no good way to treat Parkinson's disease. The main treatment is to slowly maintain medication. In the late stage of Parkinson's disease, patients will show symptoms such as sleep disturbance, body shaking, inability to take care of themselves, and bedridden.

Late manifestations of Parkinson's disease: 1. Parasomnias: Parasomnias are also common in Parkinson's patients, including rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, restless legs syndrome, periodic leg movements, nocturnal myoclonus and the familiar nightmares and sleep terrors. Among them, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder refers to the patient's muscle relaxation during rapid eye movement sleep, and spontaneous motor behavior disorders related to dream content may occur, which may lead to harmful behaviors, including self-harm or harm to partners.

Late symptoms of Parkinson's disease 2. Excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep attacks: Studies have shown that 44.4% of Parkinson's patients will experience excessive daytime sleepiness, especially a "peak" of sleepiness in the afternoon. If the problem of insomnia at night is more serious, the degree of sleepiness during the day will be significantly increased. However, this excessive sleepiness is different from sleep attacks. Sleep attacks are sudden, irresistible episodes of sleep that last from a few seconds to tens of seconds.

Late symptoms of Parkinson's disease 3. Myotonia: Myotonia is one of the main symptoms of Parkinson's disease, which is mainly caused by the increased balanced tension of the agonist and antagonist muscles. Due to the increase in muscle tension, patients may experience a series of abnormal symptoms, such as reduced blinking, chewing, swallowing, walking and other movements.

The fourth symptom of Parkinson's disease in the late stage is insomnia at night: emotional distress, frequent urination at night, difficulty turning over, lower limb cramps, nightmares, etc. are important causes of insomnia at night. In addition, some therapeutic drugs can also cause insomnia at night. If the patient already has insomnia, then after suffering from Parkinson's disease, the insomnia may be further aggravated for various reasons.

When the above-mentioned late-stage symptoms of Parkinson's disease appear, it means that the disease has become very serious. If Parkinson's patients ignore treatment, it is easy to cause Parkinson's crisis. Severe cases may even be life-threatening. Therefore, Parkinson's patients should seek medical attention in time when they find that they have symptoms such as limb tremors and hand tremors in the early stages. Only by seizing the opportunity for treatment in time can the harm of Parkinson's attacks be reduced.