Trading with Parkinson's disease (my diagnosis).... ideas?

vanzandt said:
How do you still play the sax?
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Hi -- not as well as I used to, though I can still play ok. If you look closely at recent videos you can see left hand tremor. I'd say it's about 60% still working ok. Frustrating to lose balance and full use of hands.

My music video site: http://tradingjazz.com/

It gets progressively worse over time, no cure. The neurologists say vigorous exercise slows progression so I'm doing that. Kinda sucks to be a bit disabled but it's manageable.

Glad I chose trading & teaching as a profession, originally I was pre-med at UCLA and wanted to be a surgeon.
 
KCalhoun said:
Hi -- not as well as I used to, though I can still play ok. If you look closely at recent videos you can see left hand tremor. I'd say it's about 60% still working ok. Frustrating to lose balance and full use of hands.

My music video site: http://tradingjazz.com/

It gets progressively worse over time, no cure. The neurologists specialized in DBS say vigorous exercise slows progression so I'm doing that. Kinda sucks to be a bit disabled but it's manageable.

Glad I chose trading & teaching as a profession, originally I was pre-med at UCLA and wanted to be a surgeon.
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I would really suggest contacting a neurologist specialized in DBS, those tremors can be managed by DBS, if the tremors get worse they can adjust the settings wirelessly so it can be adjusted when the tremors get worse. It's not a treatment but at least that way your daily life isn't impacted as much.

Take a look at this:

 
You might look at hiring someone to do your clicking for you. It would be a pretty cool summer job for a high schooler interested in trading, and they'd probably be happy at minimum wage compared to the other jobs open to them. Heck with zoom you could hire someone anywhere to do it for you, although I would have some trust issues with that if I didn't already know them well.
I wish you luck going forward, hell of a disease to have to fight.
 
Sig said:
You might look at hiring someone to do your clicking for you. It would be a pretty cool summer job for a high schooler interested in trading, and they'd probably be happy at minimum wage compared to the other jobs open to them. Heck with zoom you could hire someone anywhere to do it for you, although I would have some trust issues with that if I didn't already know them well.
I wish you luck going forward, hell of a disease to have to fight.
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Thx, great idea. I was thinking of hiring my daughter to help;; she's 20 and here at home. Wondering if I should though, as I want to help her be independent vs being in the trading world. I never want her to feel like she's in my shadow following in footsteps vs charting her own course etc.... big fan of independence.

I like the idea.... am hanging in there for now but will need assistance as it progresses. As Michael J Fox said in an interview it sucks. Others who have/had it include Alan Alda, George W Bush, Neil Diamond, Mohammed Ali, Linda Ronstadt etc.

https://www.parkinson.org/Understanding-Parkinsons/Statistics/Notable-Figures-with-Parkinsons
 
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Actuarial_Fun said:
Sorry to hear. Have you considered becoming plant-based vegan? Here's one link about diet and parkinson's: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-parkinsons-disease-with-diet. There's more and more plant-based books out there saying how to beat diseases or dramatically reduce symptoms with high consumption of certain fruits and vegetables. Perhaps worth a try...good luck man.
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Hey thanks, agree re veggies healthy. Reminds me of when I briefly tried vegetable juicing -- best healthy feeling in my life... but it tasted so bad I gave it up. But now I lost sense of taste due to pd, so silver lining is I can try juicing again.

Good article, said caffeine helps too, I didn't know that.

I'm a big fan of healthy natural cures especially bc pd meds have bad side fx. I'll check with my neurologist, thx...
 
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Inositol Hexaphosphate in supraphysiologic-dosing will cease the tremors. I didn't want to post, but your PMs are not open.

8g; 4g at waking; 4g at bedtime.

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