“Having a toddler, I was terrified. It is scary even if you’re able-bodied,” Melanie Carlson says. “I was so scared all the time. I fell into a wall, and I gave myself a black eye. I had bruises.”
In 2017, Melanie Carlson, then 35, received a shocking diagnosis: Parkinson’s disease. Soon after, she developed tremors and hyperkinetic, or “jerking and twisting,” limb movements, she recalls.
When she gave birth three years later, she experienced postpartum psychosis, and doctors put her on the same medication. This time, she experienced muscle rigidity and dystonia, a type of cramping, which led to her Parkinson's diagnosis. She started medications for the condition but still developed the hyperkinetic movements.
So often, Carlson felt exhausted. She needed to navigate her physical world but also devote a lot of mental energy to it because “daily tasks are logistically hard,” she explains. “It’s one of the more common neurodegenerative diseases,” the neurosurgeon tells TODAY.com. “Parkinson’s disease has the motor symptoms — tremors, for example, rigidity, slowness of movement. But it also has other symptoms, and sometimes people progress on to dementia, for example. It’s a complicated disease.”
Ultrasound ablation, on the other hand, isn't"typical neurosurgery. You don’t need a scalpel to open the head,” Eisenberg says. “It’s option for people who failed medical treatment.” “Usually, when the FDA approves something, CMS generally will approve it, but it takes a while,” Eisenberg says.
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