Teva CFS Book English

Caring A mir Karmin was diagnosed when he was in his early fifties. Parkinson's. Amir, currently 60 years old, married and a father of three grown children, lives in Hadera and has been working at Amdocs for 17 years in training and organizational development. He has a diverse employment background, including a military service as a helicopter pilot, and an affinity for sports that only got stronger when the disease was diagnosed. Thanks to Azilect - the symptoms receded by three years “The first drug that I took and at first the only drug, was Teva’s Azilect, which delays Dopamine breakdown. The drug took me back two-three years in terms of symptoms”. Thanks to the drug, Parkinson’s patients are given several more years of functionality, and according to Amir “that’s something to be reckoned with”. At a certain stage the effectiveness decreases, and then, explains Amir, most patients start taking a cocktail of several drugs. “My cocktail, for example, is based on a drug called Dopicar (a protein that the brain converts to Dopamine, also made by Teva), Azilect - whose job in the cocktail is to help me consume less Dopicar, and additional drugs the treat the tremor and the muscle tension. I’ve been taking this cocktail for three years already, a relatively long time”. You and your compass In recent years Amir took up a new hobby - orienteering: “This sport developed in Scandinavia and made its way to Israel as well. In orienteering events it’s you and your compass in some forest, trying to find landmarks that were prepared in advance, as quickly as possible. The activity enables movement on different types of terrain, climbs, downhills, balancing - everything that’s really important to a Parkinson’s patient”. In addition, Amir runs and works out five times a week. According to him, it To navigate the paths in life - with Parkinson's Amir Karmin, Chairman of the Israel Parkinson Association, chose orienteering as a hobby. As a Parkinson’s sufferer, he navigated his disease in the direction of being active, and volunteered to chair the association that helps patients like him, alongside his job at a top high-tech company. “ Fairly soon after the diagnosis I realized that sport has a beneficial effect. When the symptoms got worse and I had to up the dose of the drugs, I decided to fight it by intensifying my exercise regimen ” [Amir Karmin] ◄ 61