Why nearly half of Americans with Parkinson’s don’t see a neurologist
A new analysis finds that 40% of Medicare beneficiaries living with Parkinson's did not see a neurologist for their disease.
It took Richard Huckabee nine years to get a Parkinson’s diagnosis.
A district manager for a convenience store chain, he first noticed symptoms in 2004 when his voice would suddenly falter while speaking to large groups of employees. “It’s probably just stress,” Huckabee remembered his doctor saying. A year later came the brain fuzziness, with Huckabee forgetting his colleagues’ names, having his thoughts freeze mid-conversation, and fully losing his ability to multitask. At this point, his doctor convinced him he had Lyme disease and put him on steroids. “It was awful. For six months, they said, ‘Just keep trying,’” Huckabee recounted.
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