1 year after Brett Favre revealed battling Parkinson's, ex-Packers QB drops health update

Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre revealed in September 2024 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The former Green Bay Packers quarterback offered an update on his condition on Monday.

During an episode of his "4th and Favre" podcast, Favre delved into the details of his diagnosis.

"I'm in the early stages of Parkinson's," Favre said (9:30). "I thought there was one Parkinson's and that was it, there's not. There's multiple many forms of Parkinson's, and I have what's called idiopathic, which is the most common. And I think the other thing that most people, when they hear Parkinson's, they think of shaking. ... I have very little shaking. I have some, but it's pretty rare. "As I've learned, the Parkinson's that I have has three different characteristics, and one of those three is you'll have as the dominant side effect whatever, it's cognitive and memory is one, shaking and tremors is two, and rigidity and stiffness is three. I major in the rigidity and stiffness."

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Favre added that his condition does not have a cure yet, and he isn't firmly expecting one to arrive anytime soon.

"When I get fatigued, maybe mainly towards the end of the day, I do shake a little bit, but my cognitive memory part of it is not right now," Favre said. "It's okay, but as you well know, there's no cure. I hear, you know, from time to time, well, they're five years away from a cure. I hope that's the case, I really do. But I'm not holding my breath."

Favre played in the NFL for 20 seasons. He spent the majority of his career with the Packers, leading them to Super Bowl glory in 1997.

Favre also had one-year stints with the Atlanta Falcons and New York Jets, while playing the final two seasons of his career with the Minnesota Vikings.

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Former NFL QB Brett Favre takes medicine every few hours to help with Parkinson's diagnosis

Former Green Bay Packers QB Brett Favre - Source: Getty

In September, Brett Favre appeared on the "Sage Steele Show" and said he needs to take medicine every four hours to try to delay the progression of his Parkinson's.

"I can only imagine what I look like, but I feel like a pretzel," Favre said. "Everything is so rigid. I take the medicine and 20 minutes later, at least in my mind, it's like a total new body."

Favre, a three-time MVP, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August 2016.

Edited by Arnold