Beta blockers are a common blood pressure medicine.
Huntington’s disease is horrible.
Just sent this on to my best friend. Her HD has reached a nasty stage, so I thank you for putting this up. Only good thing is that she’s had very late onset, which took her through her career, thank goodness. I worked a block away from her and she got me a conference room for the local group I ran and helped with sponsorship for speaker travel. Then she got me her company’s sponsorship for a newsletter I started. I ran conferences in this country. She ran conferences in Europe. She taught my first class in computer language design. I can still remember her teaching about alpha-beta decision tree pruning for computer developed chess programs. Absolutely BRILLIANT researcher.
She used to write articles for Women & Guns and I suspect shooting was how she tracked if her symptoms had yet started. That’s how our friendship developed when she needed a buddy to shoot with and talked me into going with her to the range. I was TERRIFIED and she put a gun into my hand and said there’s one bullet in it. When you pull the trigger, you’re making the gun safe. Blew my mind. But I couldn’t make the drive home afterwards without getting sick, so I’d stay the night on her sofa.
Later, I went with her for the HD testing before the technology was up to finding out if she had the gene. Now I’m the sounding board for her husband when he panics. Anything that helps that horrible disease is to be applauded, so thank you for the article.
I’ve been on a beta blocker for years. That must be why my mind is as sharp as a....as a...as a...what’s it called again?
so is it the drug, or the results of the drug (keeping blood pressure down / under control) that has this effect on the disease?
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