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Roswitha S.

Roswitha S. notices from small changes that something has changed in her, but cannot interpret the symptoms. In 2004, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and started a square dance class with her husband shortly afterwards. She finds the dancing extremely helpful in relation to the Parkinson's disease. At the time of the interview, she had been living with the disease for sixteen years. In 2017, she started Deep Brain Stimulation therapy. In the time before treatment, she was very unwell and sees Deep Brain Stimulation as a last resort. At the time of the interview, the surgery was seven years ago. Even before receiving the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, Roswitha S. had quit her job as a biology teacher. Age at the time of diagnosis: 52 Treatment: Deep brain stimulation

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Changes on the eye

Roswitha S. tells of changes in her eye that cause her to make mistakes when writing.

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How was it noticed? Looking back, I can actually say that there were symptoms early on that I simply couldn't interpret. For example, one very early symptom was that I couldn't read on a line, but that my eye slipped a bit, as it always did. I used to be a teacher and I had to fill in the grades and I often slipped. That bothered me because I don't like to make mistakes. Later I realized that I always cut my fingers. And I probably pulled back the left hand, which is more affected, too little quickly. So quite strange things. And then I just noticed that I'm always tired. And I'm slower. Yeah, that's about it.

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