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*Troy’s Healthful Journey™ with MS and Parkinson’s Disease

*Troy’s Healthful Journey™ with MS and Parkinson’s Disease

Join us for an interview with Troy and discover how he has been able to manage through his journey after diagnosis with MS and Parkinson’s Disease. This is Troy’s Healthful Story™. Please note that the video may only play in landscape mode on a mobile phone.

Navigate Troy’s Healthful Journey™ with MS and Parkinson’s Disease

00:55 About Troy
02:25 Initial Symptoms
03:51 Diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis
04:04 Telling his Family
04:27 Initial Treatment with Tecfidera for MS
05:45 Precipitously went downhill
06:36 Diagnosis with Parkinson’s Disease
07:03 Renewed Life
07:50 Early Symptoms
08:41 Treatment with Rituxan
09:36 Is it MS or Parkinson’s Disease
10:32 Today I’m in a much better, joyful place
 
"Being honest with ourselves is not always the easiest thing in the world"
Troy
11:26 Have someone who will advocate for you
12:34 Being honest with ourselves is not always the easiest thing in the world
14:10 I’ve always been an active person but you’re going to have to work hard to get better
15:50 Physical Therapy
16:48 Three times a week an hour a day
18:01 Exercise has been found to be the number one thing and so I make sure I’m committed and so
every two or three hours part of my job every day I get up and I go for a walk
20:11 Not a death sentence
20:19 Some days when I can’t button my shirt and it takes me 20 minutes to get ready in the morning
where it used to take me five
23:12 Communicate with your family

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