Topamax essential tremor
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When essential tremor (ET) significantly interferes with daily activities, long-term drug treatment is needed. Drugs most commonly used to treat essential tremor include beta-blockers (propranolol) and an epilepsy drug called Mysoline (primidone). Topamax (topiramate), another drug used to treat epilepsy and migraine help some people.
However I will try to provide you with some useful information on Benign Essential Tremor (BET) and its treatment.
As you mention, propranolol is a commonly used and effective treatment for BET, but can not be used in people with asthma and some other pulmonary problems.
Other treatments for BET include primidone, or mysoline. The main side effect is sedation and it can cause allergic reaction in some people.
I have just been to the specialist who said he thinks I have essential tremor. I thought at first it might be related to my thryoid medication but it seems not. In this forum I see that essential tremor is benign and not related to other cognitive difficulties however, I understand that not much research has been done and the little research there is suggests that essential tremor may be related to dementia.
I have had an essential tremor since the age of 20 i am now 37years old, it affects my whole body, head hands legs as well as an unsteady gait. I have seen numerous nurologists and have been on several meds i have even gone as far as trying botox injections in my head and neck, they have gotten so bad that they are starting to affect my daily activites not only at work but at home, I am a mother of 2 children a 6yr old and a 4 yr old.
At 18 I was referred to a Neurologist and I was told I had Essential Tremor and he put me on meds. They never worked very well and I went off of them about 7 months later. I have tremors all the time and then sometimes it does not seem like I really have them at all and then sometimes I get like an attack of them and it feels so strange, I just am sitting there and they start on really strong.
I am just wodering if that is normal for Essential Tremor or could this be something else?
I just wanna know other than propranolol, are there foods that have beta blockers? I have benign essential tremor and it is most active when I'm speaking in front of group of people (these include hands, voice, and cheeks) but it happens all the time even in a normal day. what shall I do? I can't concentrate on my job and for any discussions we have because of this ET.
My neurologist has diagnosed me with Essential Tremor and Cervical Spondylosis (with some osteophytes). When I turn my head to the right it tremors quite noticeably. When my head faces to the front the tremors are not as noticeable. This began about 2 months ago and I am a 49 year old female.
Does one have anything to do with the other? Will the tremor get worse? He suggested Botox in the back of the neck to stop the tremors.
I think if you're asking about an essential tremor it would be more directly involved with the nerves to the spinal cord. I guess you could trace each tooth nerve to its main nerve and then trace that main nerve back to the brain.
Then you would have to see what that part of the body that part of the brain also affects.
It could be quite lengthy with no guarantee that it would be correct, but I guess you could try.
Worrying and stress in general will cause essential tremor (and in general any other tremor, whether it be from drinking a cup of coffee too much and that causing a tremor, or a medical condition causing a tremor) to worsen, I know from firsthand (ha ha) experience, I've had essential tremor as long as I can remember.
After a few months the limpness and the stagger in my leg went away and only the tremor remained and I was diagnosed with essential tremor. But it was never characteristic of essential tremor rather it was always an inconsistent tic. The tic has gotten slightly worse over the years (I am now 18) and has more or less moved it has become less evident in my hands and now lies mainly in my torso, lower neck, shoulder and head and barely noticeable in my hands and arms.
topamax 50mg for ulnar nerve pain and cymbalta 30mg which he swtched form my aropax (paxil) which i had taken for 13 yrs without any adverse effects. The side effects were awful from these medications. Agitation , fast heart rate, insomnia and suicidal thoughts ( i thought i was depressed before!). Now it appears that i am left with a permanent tremor in my hands and head. I also get frequent muscle twitching. Its been 4 months and they havn't eased what's the go!!!!
//www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/essential-tremor/symptoms-causes/syc-20350534 You don't mention your age but it is important to note that it becomes more and more common after the age of 40. They do have several medication types that are used to help control tremors. Are they talking about anythign like this yet for you?
This link is about Parkinson's Disease specifically. https://www.mayoclinic.
Women are more likely to develop the head tremor than are men.Other types of tremor may also occur, including postural tremor of the outstretched arms, intentional tremor of the arms and rest tremor in the arms.
a variety of non-motor features have recently been linked with ET. These include anxiety and depressive symptoms as well as cognitive difficulty.
Recent studies have demonstrated that late-onset ET (onset > age 65) may be associated with an increased risk of developing dementia.
t aggravate tremors and so your feeling of increased head shaking cannot be attributed to Inderal. For a person with an essential tremor, the starting dose of Inderal is 40 mg twice a day. Based on the tremor response and/or Inderal side effects, your healthcare provider may increase or decrease the Inderal dosage.
Hence, the dose you are taking is suboptimum and may not be of any benefit in your tremor.
I am a professional violinist and recently developed an essential tremor in my bow arm which interferes greatly with my playing. My neurologist tried primidone but it has helped only a little. I asked if he could put me on Inderal which I understand can help with essential tremor.
However -- the doctor pointed out that I am already on lisinopril (for hypertension) which, he claimed, ALSO is effective in treating essential tremor.
have been told multiple answers-anxiety, essential tremor, somatoform. I feel both my wrists w/slight tremor when they’re under my pillow when going to sleep or when arms folded. Top Neuro/MDS said this isn’t disease, don’t have PD/MS, specific positions like under my pillow can be ET-not rest tremor-says most everything to go away-states symptoms are from herniated discs C5/C6, C6/C7-bulging,stenosis-time should heal.Am I being told this so we can wait to actual PD symptoms present?
In any event, essential tremor is a kind of action tremor, which is what is seen in MS. The tremor occurs when reaching for something or trying to do something. You should see me applying mascara. Takes 2 hands! There are a lot of descriptors for this kind of tremor and the names are confusing to say the least. I think what matters from the diagnostic standpoint is that there is no tremor when the limb in question is at rest. In Parkinsons, by contrast, resting tremors are frequent.
Eliane would like to know more about Myokymia and Essential Tremor. Do both of these disorders have something do to with the other. She had the Essential Tremor and Myokymia about 24 years, but not an actual diagnosis until about four years ago.
Up until about six months ago she was having non stop tremors in the left eye and accompanied with double vision 24 hours a day for a length of two years.
The center of the eyeball would travel towards the corner of the eye closest to the nose.
I am wondering if others who have been diagnosed with Chiari Malformation have also been previously diagnosed with Essential Tremor? I have had Essential Tremor since I was 12 years old, diagnosed in my 30s and was just diagnosed with Chiari Malformation this year at 53 years old. I also have IBS and have been loosely diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. I am suspicious that the Chiari Malformation is the cause of all these other issues, as well as being hereditary.
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