Chapters Transcript Video Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Procedure So, 10 years ago, I started noticing symptoms and those symptoms were uh involuntary shaking in my left leg. Everybody sort of dismissed it as uh nerves, anxiety. I didn't think so. So several years into my treatment, uh I wanted to seek another opinion and um I've heard that Doctor Tagliati was the best that there is. Doctor Tagliati was very personable and we connected right away and I felt a sense of uh reassurance and trust. She already had a, a fairly advanced uh uh case of Parkinson's disease. Uh She would respond to medications and she was taking quite a few of them for a few hours and then the response would uh fade would wear off. And that is a typical problem in patients with Parkinson's disease. After 567 years of treatment, we tried different remedies. We even tried boat in injections. She participates in some of our clinical trials. But then it came to a point in which uh um we only had uh deep brain stimulation uh to offer in order to truly uh change the course of her unstoppable progression. So, you have had a very interesting variant of Parkinson's and a lot of patients do. Her symptoms were almost exclusively involving one side of her body, the left side of her body. So she was a really good candidate to consider a one sided D BS to just treat the left side of her body and try to resolve those dyskinesias and the tremor at the same time while also allowing her to reduce her medication. Uh, the surgery went very well. She did very well. Uh, both physically, cosmetically, et cetera. She's recovered well. It's not as scary as it seems. The whole team. Doctor Maak and Doctor Tagliati, I trust impeccably and I would, uh, say to whoever is considering it to absolutely, um, not to jump into it but do the research but to go ahead and, and not be afraid because it, it is a life changing procedure. Created by
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