{"id":51654,"date":"2025-09-09T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asport.com.ng\/?p=51654"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:45:34","slug":"former-packers-hall-of-fame-qb-brett-favre-who-was-diagnosed-with-parkinsons-last-september-says-his-symptoms-are-accelerating-and-he-has-stiffness-on-his-right-side-difficulty-swallowing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asport.com.ng\/?p=51654","title":{"rendered":"Former Packers Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre, who was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s last September, says his symptoms are accelerating and he has stiffness on his right side, difficulty swallowing, and tremors. \u201cWhat symptoms have sort of arised here lately, is like, I have a hard time swallowing. There\u2019s times where I think I\u2019m choking. It\u2019s sort of scary because they can\u2019t fix that,\u201d Favre said. \u201cI try not to think about it. I try to just focus on getting after the day. But, there are times during the day, maybe at night, when I can decompress\u2026and I think I\u2019m progressing a little bit.\u201d Parkinson\u2019s disease is a disorder of the central nervous system that affects movement, often including tremors. There is no known cure for the disease. Favre is 55 years old. (via Sage Steele)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brett Favre, the legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback and Pro\u202fFootball Hall of Famer, recently laid bare a harrowing chapter of his life: his struggle with Parkinson\u2019s disease, which he disclosed publicly in September\u202f2024. Now, in 2025, he\u2019s speaking out again\u2014more candidly, more personally\u2014revealing how the disease has escalated and how it\u2019s reshaping his daily existence in ways both subtle and frightening. In an appearance on \u201cThe Sage Steele Show,\u201d he conveyed a deepening sense of unease, a quiet frustration, and a fierce determination to face each day despite a body that feel increasingly rigid and uncooperative.<\/p>\n

Favre first revealed his diagnosis during a congressional hearing on September 24, 2024. At that moment, he was testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee amid scrutiny over his involvement in a Mississippi welfare funding controversy. It was then he took a moment away from the political noise to reveal something far more personal and somber: he had recently been diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease. He framed it with regret and advocacy, saying, \u201cWhile it’s too late for me \u2014 because I\u2019ve recently been diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s \u2014 this is also a cause dear to my heart,\u201d noting that he had lost an investment in a company developing a concussion drug<\/p>\n

At that hearing, Favre\u2019s words cast a somber light on the long-term toll of his football career. He spoke of having endured \u201cthousands\u201d of concussions over two decades in the NFL, implicitly connecting this barrage to his diagnosis ). That admission helped underscore the urgent importance of addressing head injuries in sports and lent gravity to his efforts\u2014even as controversy swirled around him.<\/p>\n

Now, in this latest appearance, Favre offered a medical progress report\u2014not through clinical detachment, but through an honest, unguarded human perspective. In the podcast, he said that Parkinson\u2019s has crept beyond mere tremors\u2014a symptom most commonly associated with the disease\u2014and into profound rigidity. His joints, he shared, have grown stiff, especially on his right side, the dominant side for so much of his athletic life. In his own words, \u201cI have rigid and stiff joints on my right side \u2013 really on both sides, but the right side is bothering me\u201d (CBSSports.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

That stiffness, he said, makes him feel like \u201ca pretzel\u201d or \u201ca board\u201d upon waking\u2014rigid and resistant to movement. He contrasted his own form of Parkinson\u2019s, where shaking is limited, with what the public often imagines; he emphasized that what he endures is more silence than spectacle: \u201cEveryone attributes Parkinson’s with shaking … I have a little shaking, but not like Muhammad Ali or Michael J. Fox,\u201d he explained (CBSSports.com<\/a>, Fox News<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But perhaps the most unnerving new symptom isn\u2019t rigidity\u2014it\u2019s difficulty swallowing. Breaths catch. Moments of dining or drinking can turn into panic, as he sometimes feels like he\u2019s choking. \u201cI\u2019m having a hard time swallowing. There\u2019s times where I think I\u2019m choking. It\u2019s sort of scary because they can\u2019t fix that,\u201d Favre confessed in a voice that trembled between defiance and dread (The Cold Wire<\/a>, The Sun<\/a>, Sportskeeda<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It was this physical vulnerability that cut through the aura of invincibility that Favre built in his playing days. The same mouth that threw pinpoint passes might now fail in the simple act of swallowing. He described how the swallowing difficulty staggered him, how it only underscored the cruel unfairness that there is no cure. \u201cThey can\u2019t fix that,\u201d he repeated\u2014a phrase simple in construction, devastating in implications (The Cold Wire<\/a>, The Sun<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Still, amid the fear there is defiance. He tries \u201cnot to think about it.\u201d Instead, he pushes forward: \u201cI try to just focus on getting after the day.\u201d He clings to routine, to structure, to small victories. There are \u201ctimes during the day, maybe at night, when I can decompress \u2026 and I think I’m progressing a little bit\u201d (The Cold Wire<\/a>, WCCS AM1160 & 101.1FM<\/a>). That sense of progression may be fleeting, but it\u2019s vital\u2014a glimmer that even in a day overwhelmed by disease, moments of relief can exist.<\/p>\n

Favre also spoke of how medication helps\u2014but also of its limitations. He said he takes medicine every four hours to try to slow the progression, and that its effects can feel transformative\u2014like a \u201ctotal new body\u201d twenty minutes after dosing (CBSSports.com<\/a>). Still, he acknowledged the long-term implications: \u201cI don\u2019t want to keep taking medication for the next 30, 40 years if I live that long. But it is what it is,\u201d he said with a weary acceptance (Fox News<\/a>).<\/p>\n

So this conversation is not only the news of diagnosis or progression\u2014it\u2019s the sound of a man learning to speak through stiffness, cough through fear, and breathe through swallowing trouble. It\u2019s about adapting to a new limitations while resenting their presence.<\/p>\n

Favre, at 55 years old, is contending with a disease without cure or reprieve. Parkinson\u2019s\u2014an incurable disorder of the central nervous system\u2014is relentless, unpredictable, and deeply personal. It chips away at the body\u2019s capacity for movement, coordination, balance, speech, and swallowing. Mechanics that once functioned effortlessly are now sources of terror. That terror is raw enough to suffuse his words with strain and candor.<\/p>\n

Yet even as it advances, he resists being defined by it. He declines pity. He leans on resilience. He focuses on daily purpose, the fight for every morning\u2019s stiffness, every meal\u2019s safe swallow, every moment of vigor between medications. \u201cI try not to think about it,\u201d he reiterated, underscoring that in his world, distraction is a shield.<\/p>\n

There is also more subtle grief\u2014the grief of a man who watched his body once perform feats of precision, power, and grace, only now to betray him in the most basic functions. The quarterback who threw spirals, led comebacks, lived for fourth\u2011quarter drives\u2014now must wrestle with swallowing, with stillness, with rigidity. The man who once carried millions in crowds and championships must now carry the weight of fear and physical decline. That contrast amplifies the tragedy.<\/p>\n

At the same time, one detects gratitude. Gratitude for being alive, for clarity of mind, for fleeting moments of progress. \u201cMost of the time, I\u2019m good,\u201d he said in one appearance, trying to remind himself\u2014and perhaps his audience\u2014that there are days when it feels okay, even if the next day may not be (Fox News<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Behind these words is also a stadium of emotion: fans, critics, family, foes, old teammates, doctors, everyday people watching and listening. Some of that crowd offers compassion; others cast skepticism. On platforms like Reddit, some users expressed that it\u2019s painful to see a childhood hero suffer, while others questioned timing or motives. One fan wrote, \u201cBest wishes and prayers to Brett\u202fFavre and his family\u201d (Reddit<\/a>). Another voiced a painful truth from personal experience: \u201cMy dad was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s a couple years ago\u2026 Outside of my dad, Favre was my biggest childhood hero. This is a bit of a gut punch if I\u2019m being honest\u201d (Reddit<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But whether sympathy flows or skepticism sings, it doesn\u2019t take away from the chasm the disease has opened in Favre\u2019s life. Memory of victories, Hall of Fame, records and legends cannot shield a person from Parkinson\u2019s\u2014the disease respects no legacy.<\/p>\n

And so Favre tells us what he is told by daily reality: that swallowing is no longer safe, that joints can be insistent as stone, that rigidity creeps in like a quiet occupier of the body. But he refuses to yield. He doses himself with medication as armor, welcomes moments of relief as victory, flinches but then stands upright again.<\/p>\n

There is loneliness in this story\u2014loneliness that echoes through the microphone lines of a podcast. There is defiance, too\u2014defiance in facing a body that failed a thousand times in uniform, and now fails again in private. There is fear, but also fierce resolve. There is a disease that cannot be cured, but there is also a human spirit that refuses to be defined by it.<\/p>\n

In the end, Favre\u2019s voice reminds us that Parkinson\u2019s isn\u2019t only a medical label\u2014it\u2019s a claustrophobic, wrenching daily reality. Swallowing can be perilous. Medication cycles can be salvation. Stiffness can feel like immobility. And still\u2014someone wakes up, shakes the board\u2011like body, fights gravity, fights fear, focuses on getting after the day. For now, that is enough.<\/p>\n

Let me know if you’d like any tweaks\u2014maybe a tighter emotional focus, or more detail on Parkinson\u2019s disease context, or trimming to an exact word target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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