{"id":431279,"date":"2026-05-04T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431279\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:42:09","slug":"early-onset-parkinsons-i-felt-trapped-in-a-body-that-didnt-feel-like-mine-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431279\/","title":{"rendered":"Early-onset Parkinson\u2019s: \u2018I felt trapped in a body that didn\u2019t feel like mine anymore\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nDealing with EOPD while caring for her terminally ill daughter, who died two years ago aged just 10, Lynn McDonald (45) describes how the impact of being a carer and the lack of resources available were a barrier to slowing the progress of the disease\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lynn McDonald. Photo: Dan Clohessy\/Inpho\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0b7058f7-5493-44eb-8943-fd58118a6753.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lynn McDonald. Photo: Dan Clohessy\/Inpho<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Lynn McDonald received a diagnosis of early-onset Parkinson\u2019s disease, she was already a carer for her daughter, who died two weeks before her 11th birthday. The symptoms that were eventually diagnosed over a decade later as early-onset Parkinson\u2019s disease (EOPD) began when the 45-year-old was just 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cMy initial symptoms were quite vague,\u201d she says. \u201cNumerous things. I just knew I wasn\u2019t right. When I say exhaustion\u2026in your first trimester of pregnancy, you feel a slump. If you quadruple that, that\u2019s just barely touching it.\u201d Insomnia was an issue, as were fainting spells and bowel issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dealing with EOPD while caring for her terminally ill daughter, who died two years ago aged just 10,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,56007],"class_list":["post-431279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liadan-hynes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}