Living with Parkinson's Disease

I’ve had PD for 4 years and have experienced ups and downs in the degree of symptoms. At times my voice is haorse and other times normal. At times I dispaly very little symptoms and other times I have tremors muscle tightness, and several of the common ones that go along with PD. The feeling I’m experiencing at this time is trying to have others understand what I’m physically and mentally going through. I realize that unless one experience the same issues that you can’t really understand.

I’m begining to reach out to others with PD to validate my feelings as well as my understanding of the variation of my symptoms. I’m the type of person who believes in cause and effect and I can’t apply this to the intensity of my symptoms. I know that stess creates the greatest effect, but how about muscle tightness. At times the muscles in my hands get so tight that my joints hurt. Is it common with others that if they keep moving that their muscles feel tight but when they stop they become knots? This is specially true when I go to bed.