A woman opens from Orange County about what is like living with a rare fatal disease that was compared to the presence of Als, Parkinson’s and alzheimer’s all.
Carrie Primon, a 61 -year -old Westminster, was diagnosed with Huntington’s disease in January this year.
Huntington’s disease is a fatal genetic disorder that causes the gradual collapse of nerve cells in the brain. It only affects one out of every 10,000 people, and until now, it has no treatment.
In light of the month of awareness of Huntington’s disease, Praison told the Ktla chip what it had been trying.
“I started breaking my speech and my balance was stopped,” Praison narrated.
When she started symptoms for the first time, Praison said she was not only bothering her through tingling or other movements – but the fact that others also noticed.
“I am self -aware of this because many people stare, or assume that I am either high, loaded or, as you know, I have mental problems,” Praison explained.
One of the worst parts of this disease, according to medical experts, is that many people seem to live as if it were a completely healthy life in the thirties and forties of their age before they realize that they have Huntington’s disease.
This means that most patients have already started families with the time when they learn have a 50/50 chance to pass a fatal disease to their children.
Praison was 61 when it was diagnosed.
Ktla told she hoped to find a treatment – if not in time for her, then in time for her children.
Professor UC Irvine Bren Leslie Thompson, who has been searching for Huntington’s disease 35 years ago, said that while there is currently no cure – there is hope.
Tomson said: “I think it is on the horizon, we will have at least treatments that delay the disease or delay the beginning and over time, we hope it will be a cure,” Tomson said.
according to The American Association in Huntington, Symptoms usually exacerbate 10 to 15 years.
“Symptoms – it is a cognitive disability. You cannot perform daily tasks,” Thompson explained. “Its psychological components are severe depression and other features, then the unusual movement. Therefore, it is really one of the worst types of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson and Als, which brings all these to some somewhat illness.”
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