Thank you for that. I have been shuffling my feet at times and this is one of the things my Dad did. He had Parkinson's. How did they diagnosis you ? Perhaps I need to be assessed by a different nuerologist. I have some shaking in my hands but he said it was from the nueropathy.

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 🙂