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Checking In (January 2023)

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Ok, so these updates are further apart than I was anticipating when I started, but I guess that's the nature of a (thankfully) very slowly progressive disease like Parkinson's.  So what's happened since the last check in? The drugs trial didn't come off (I was initially disappointed, then relieved that I wasn't going to be tied to quite so much travelling) but the remote monitoring project did happen and I'm now in the habit of using an extra iPhone and Apple Watch to measure (some of) my symptoms once a month.   Parkinson's - A Walk in the Park My symptoms are probably a wee bit worse than they were at this time last year - but at the moment they aren't stopping me doing what I want to do, and I'm still resisting starting to take regular meds (mainly on the basis that I don't think I need them). Everyone I talk to in the Parkinson's community (be they other patients or medical professionals) seems to be very enthusiastic about exercise as th...