Former Green Bay Packers star Brett Favre told TMZ Sports in August about the symptoms he felt before eventually being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Brett Favre revealed on Tuesday that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease as he testified on Capitol Hill about welfare reform. Favre had actually talked about his health battle with TMZ Sports in August. The outlet said Wednesday it was asked not to divulge information but received permission this week to publish its interview with the Pro Football Hall of Famer.
The Super Bowl champion quarterback detailed meetings he had with doctors. 'I saw five specialists. They all said, first of all, it doesn’t matter where you got it,' Favre said. 'You got it. It ain’t going away. But, if you wanna know, they all said the same thing. If it’s not in your family, and there’s none on either side of my family, then the first thing we look at his head trauma. Well, hell, I wrote the book on head trauma.
had two symptoms and they went on for about a year – I would consider to be minor. I would be doing something and my right arm, I would notice, would just be stuck. I was like, ‘What, that’s weird.’ I would put my arm down and go about my way. When I would forget about it, it would be right back there. That went on for a year.
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