Pro wrestling legend Raven revealed earlier this fall that he has been diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease, among other health issues he is managing, including a sleep disorder.
In an interview with Wrestling Life, Raven discussed a variety of topics, focusing on his Parkinson's diagnosis and how he has been successfully managing the condition.
This is what Raven said, “Good, it’s good. It’s — I’ve had it for 10 years off and on. I say ‘off and on,’ even though that doesn’t make any sense, because I had a tremor for a couple years. Went to a neurologist. He said, ‘Try getting off the Depakote,’ a medication I was taking for sleeping, ‘and maybe it’ll go away. Because it’s it’s known to cause it.’ And so I got off it and it went away for a couple years. But then the tremor started coming back. But other than [the fact that] I have a small hitch in my gait, in my walk, mainly it’s just a tremor. So it’s not it’s not anything that’s not manageable.”
On his sleep disorder:
“My sleep disorder is the worst part. Because I wake up exhausted. You know, I wake up as tired as when I went to bed because I wake up 15, 20 times a night. But on the plus side, at least I can fall back asleep usually immediately. Which — so I mean, I’m always trying to look at the positive. I try not to look at the negative. I try not to dwell on things like the negatives.”
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(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
