CBS Special on Huntington's Disease/Chris Furbee

i so agree with Chris im 15 and im studying huntingtons and it seeems hard for someone to go through people need to stop laughing and acually relise that, that person might need help with something they dont no that, that person could die of a neurodegenerative genetic disorder. more people need to be wary of this and other diseases too.

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Toomuchyonke. Your mind is full of Yonke. If you MUST have another child Adopt. Otherwise you just being selfish and gambleing with the future of your children just because someome told you it might work.. Go ahead a hurt yourself instead of your unborn children.

i dont understand. the prevalence is 7 per million. how are there 250,000 in the u.s. with the disease?

I get that these people lose the control over their body, but what exactly leads to death? Choke? Muscles??

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Usually pneumonia is proves fatal for many people with HD. The chorea causes difficulty swallowing and this can lead to aspiration of consumed food. Also heart disease and malnutrition are common in HD.

Most of my friends are dying of this disease, Its a hard thing to understand yet it is something that they cannot run from but to face off. it makes life unfair, because these are beautiful people who end up in the worst case scenario of themselves. But I still believe that there will be a cure, its the only way for me to see that they die so that others will live ... GOD BLESS all of you dudes

My mom just recently turned 44 and she has had huntingtons for 10 years. It's just devastating for everyone in the family, I'm 18 and my younger sister is only 16, life has been unbearable for us growing up. i remember when I was little my mom told me that she began seeing symptoms in herself when she was only 20. sometimes, when I think about it, i can also see the early stages of symptoms in myself, but I'm scared to get tested.

My grandmother is in the early stages of Huntington's. She has trouble keeping her balance and, when she's particularly agitated, has trouble controlling her limbs. Her mother died from the disease, and her siblings are also showing signs of it. My mother expects to have it, as does my uncle, and I'll probably have itl. It's a horrible thing to live with, to watch your family slowly, but surely. lose control of their own body. Every year my grandmother gets worse, and there's nothing we can do.

Does anyone know if there are any kinds of medications that can help ease the symptoms?