Falling

I have fibromyalgia and what they're calling cerebellar ataxia, which means my balance is terrible and I have had some bad falls so now I use a cane outside the house. I don't know if these are really 2 separate problems or if the balance stuff is from the fibro.
I imagine that if you see a doctor about the falls they are just going to say you're on too much norco. You could try a cane-it gives me a better chance of catching myself and not actually falling. The biggest hassle is not having that hand free to carry things.

Thank you for you response. The doctors decided my narco had to go up. I am never below a 7.5 and most of the time 8 to 10. They think that level of pain may be reducing my level of clarity and ability to process things. After I hit 9 my brain is just in a fog and I get dizzy. It is too busy processing pain to do anything else.
I could of done it on my own but I don't like to play with opiates.
I have injured both hands so for the time being weight on my hands is not an option but that is a great idea and when my hands heal I hope I can use a cane. Thanks for telling me about the cerebellar ataxia. I will do some research on that.
Takes a ton of patience.

Of course you are right. Thank you for reminding me.

When my tremor got bad enough to look stuff up about it, I learned that people with Parkinson's have tremor at rest, like when their hands are in their lap. People with "benign" essential tremor, which is my type (thanks, Mom!) have what's called an intention tremor-the harder I try to do something the more difficult it gets. This is totally maddening especially when the earring I've tried 3 times to put in gets dropped on the floor twice. Eye makeup is a lost cause.
I don't have a citation for this distinction and I can't make a medical diagnosis but I thought you'd be interested.

Yes, I know all about essential tremor. I do have Parkinson's but I have essential tremor worse. We tried Mysoline to settle it down, but it only worked for a little while. Now I am in the process of going off Mysoline so I can go on Propranolol (SP?) I'll be ready by the middle of the week.But of course the new med will cause problems with one of my blood pressure meds, so it will probably have to be changed. I also have bipolar disorder so every new med must be checked with all the meds I am on for that. I have been taking Sinemet for a long time and it didn't do anything for the tremor. I now wonder if it is doing anything for me at all, but I hate to stop it in case it is keeping some other Parkinson's characteristics in under control. Don't you just love this - for me "this" means getting old - really old!

A kindred spirit! I have bipolar 2, fibromyalgia, and am on something like 12 different meds. New.doctors act annoyed at that- it's always "you're on so many meds" in a disapproving tone. It's probably because they have to remember all that pharmacology from med school. I've used mysoline-didn't work all that well-and propranolol pills, which worked but got my BP so low I got dizzy. Sigh. My husband's an ophthalmologist. They use beta-blockers, as drops, to low eye pressure in glaucoma. He brought me some timolol to try. I like the eyedrops because they take the edge off the tremor but I tolerate them better than the pills. We do have to get creative.

Yes, where do I get a husband?

Not on this site...

LOL 🙂

As we get older, our systems change. I noticed that last November when I blacked out while getting my morning medicine and broke my hip in two places. After surgery came rehabilitation and then getting back to as normal as possible. Oxycodone was used at times during four hour prescription times to control Pain. Physical Therapy had a number of therapy excercises to tr and help me regain what I had lost. One of the most noted items was the location of Sciatica which could cause undue pain. Even at the present time, I try to excercise by walking, so as to ciculate blood throughout m system. It often helps reduce the pain, but age and other systematic items can interfere. Seek someone with exerience in deaing with pain so as to lessen pain where possible, understand system changes and not over use pain medications.

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