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Does Anyone Else Panic When Having Someone Help You Stand Up While Your Weak?

A MyParkinsonsTeam Member asked a question 💭
Ft Myers, FL

The times that I am weak and need help standing up, my husband puts his arm under my armpit and helps pull me up onto my walker. Every time I panic and feel like I'm going to fall and I never have fallen yet. He doesn't understand and neither do I why I panic and sometimes almost "freak out"

April 22, 2018
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A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

I have the same ups and downs. They seem to be related to where I am in the cycle of my meds. I’m worst when I’m off. My doctor calls them “dysphoric offs”.

April 28, 2018
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

I've had two knee replacements plus a month after the second replacement I stood up and tore the quadricep entirely off the bone. So that has put a crimp in my PD also. So I need help to stand up sometimes because I haven't regained entirely the strengths in that left knee. I so hate to have someone help me up, so I now just ask them to push my kneecap in as I stand up and that seems to straighten me up for the most part. If it's not one thing it's another. I don't mean to be a whiner, but sometimes I just get so sick of it I just can't stand it I cry way more than I should and no one would believe that I cried because I am such a positive person. This emotional roller coaster is making me nuts! And then when I feel fine and strong, I feel like I've got the world hun this emotional roller coaster is making me nuts! And then when I feel fine and strong, I feel like I've got the world conquered, only to find that a few hours later I am going to freeze up again. Do you all relate to this? I wish I didn't panic when my husband helps me up on occasion, but I can't explain it to him I just feel like I'm gonna fall over although I never have. I just pray in my life time someone comes up with a solution to even some of the symptoms for us. Thanks for listening 😎

April 24, 2018
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

Yes I do panic. Now I tell them not to help me

April 24, 2018
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

pull the chair forward then step behind the chair.

April 23, 2018
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

How do you get behind her if she sitting in a chair?

April 22, 2018

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