NFL legend Brett Favre shares update on tough battle with Parkinson's disease

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NFL fable Brett Favre offered an update connected his ongoing conflict with Parkinson’s illness connected Monday during the latest occurrence of his podcast.

Favre revealed successful September 2024 helium was diagnosed with the unwellness arsenic helium testified successful beforehand of Congress astir payment reform. Since then, he’s kept his conflict with the illness adjacent to the vest.

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Green Bay Packers backmost (4) Brett Favre warms up earlier playing against the Detroit Lions astatine Ford Field. (Tom Szczerbowski/USA TODAY Sports)

As helium talked astir Philip Rivers coming backmost to play successful the NFL astatine 44, Favre believed helium could person played astatine slightest 1 bid until helium was astir 50. Favre said helium was moving retired rigorously until helium began dealing with his wellness battle.

"I’m astir apt similar astir radical – I thought determination was conscionable 1 Parkinson’s and that was it. There’s not. There’s multiple, galore forms of Parkinson’s," helium said connected "4th and Favre." "And I person what’s called idiopathic, which is the astir common. And I deliberation the different happening astir radical deliberation erstwhile they perceive of Parkinson’s is they deliberation of shaking.

"I get from clip to time, ‘Oh you indispensable not beryllium excessively atrocious due to the fact that you don’t shake.’ I person precise small shaking. I person some, but it’s beauteous rare. But arsenic I’ve learned, the Parkinson’s that I person has 3 antithetic characteristics. One of those 3 you’ll person arsenic the ascendant broadside effect. It’s cognitive and representation is one. Shaking and tremors is two. And rigidity and stiffness is three. I large successful the rigidity and stiffness."

Former NFL backmost Brett Favre appears earlier the House Committee connected Ways and Means connected Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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The erstwhile Green Bay Packers prima said helium wakes up stiff until helium takes his medication.

"So, erstwhile I aftermath up successful the greeting earlier I instrumentality my medicine, I’m arsenic adjacent to a 2 by 4 arsenic you could perchance get. And erstwhile I instrumentality my medicine, it’s similar the muscles and the joints benignant of easiness their grip connected me. When I get fatigued, chiefly toward the extremity of the day, I bash shingle a small bit. My cognitive representation – portion of it, close present it’s OK. As you good know, there’s nary cure. I perceive from clip to time, ‘Well, they’re 5 years distant from a cure.’ I anticipation that that’s the case. But I’m not holding my breath."

Favre, 56, played successful the NFL from 1991 to 2010. He was with the Packers, Atlanta Falcons, New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings successful those 20 years.