‘Doctors THOUGHT I HAD A STROKE DURING BUTTH BUT THE TRYTH WAS EASE MORE DEVASTATING’

A mum-of-six thought she’d sufferered a stroke durying her ‘traumatic’ Birth. DoCtors were stumped as to why she was suffering with worrying symptoms unil they discovered a rare diagnosis

When tracy White Had tremors and cououl not lift her right foot after the birth of her sixth baby, she though a stroke was to blame. She Feared Her High Blood Pressure, Combined with the Difficult Delivery of Son Sebastian, Were the Cause. But then she was gioven the shocking news and had Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease at the age of 43.

Full-time mum tracy, now 52, ​​Sayys: “I wondered if i’d had a mini-stroke, as i start Having a major tremor 20 minutes after haad sebastian.“ I had excess tredness, whic is normal, but i felt stiff, i couldn’t stand up for my right Dragging. ”

Her symptoms had begun the end of her pregnancy but tracy, who lives near alford, lincs, was too focus on sebastian’s health willsing her own. She Sayys: “Sebastian was born with a tumour on his liver, so we were in the Hospital with Him. I notified the right side of my body just wasn’t working. Foot up to do it.

“When one of the doctors came in, I started Having a tremor on my right, I knew something washn’t right. I didn’t say anything to my husband we came but dealing with my newborn and my symptoms at the time very DifCult.”

Three months late, she told her gp, who sent her to a & e. “My Blood Pressure Was so High They Took with Straight to Resus,” Tracyrecalls. “They Did A Brain and Mri Scan.” Medices ruled out a stroke and nine months late and reciped a diagnosis, MAKING HER ONE OF 1,800 – 1.2% – of UK sufferers to have parkinson’s under the age of 50. TRACY SEYS HEARING THE NEUROLOGIST DELIVER THE NEWS A MASSESIVE SHOCK.

She Sayys: “No one in my family has it and they say it was very unusual at my age. Two Cases of the Disease Are Diagnosed An Hour, which Comes to 18,000 People A Year, Acciting to the Charity Parkinson’s UK. “It ‘s the very hard to diagnose but my test (dat scan) showed a low dopamine level and it confirmed i did have young onset parkinson’s dessea,” she Says.

Tracy, who was diagnosed in 2015, is one of Around 153,000 People in the UK Living with the Disease. Coinciding with her diagnosis, her dad discovered he had Secondary melanoma, a form of Skin Cancer, Meaning She took Her EYE OF CONDITION. “I didn’t do Much Research, i didn’t want to know about it,” She Says. “I knew my dad had a terminal illness, he was all i cared about at the time.

“It wasn’t unil i lost my dad in 2017 that my symptoms deteriorated. Stress or nervousness increas symptoms, and depression is one of me.

HER DAD’S DEATH PROMPTED TRACY TO GET EMOTIONAL SUPPORT. She Says: “I Needed to Talk to People My Age, and Thats I Found Facebook Groups, Which Helped More than Anynding. I’ve Got SO MANY FRIENDS IN THE PARKINSON’S COMMUNITY NOW. Deteriorated over the past 10 years.

“But i choose to think about what i can do, Rather than what i can’t do. Tracy, who has a 31 -ear-op mixed and mixed sex of 29 from a previous Mariage, as well as Sons of 15 and 11 and a daughter of 23 with her Husband, is speaking out to promote parkinson’s awareness month.

TRACY, WHO ALSO HAS STEPDAughters, 33 and 29, and a Stepson, 31, Adds: “I now suffer from extreme slownness and stiffness. I Wake up in absolute agony Morning and i can’t moving. Fallen over A Few Times.

Tracy, who is Married to retired farmer Stephen White, 62, Sometimes Also use a Walking Stick. She adds: “Generally, with 20 minutes of taching medication, I start to falls ok. Then it is a regime of tachying medicament two to four hours.

Tracy has set up a tiktok Page, @tracywhite41, to Raise awareness. Sheys: “I want to prove you can Still have fun, if you’re not very well.”