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Essential Tremors

Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Apr 30 3:03pm | Replies (44)

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I was diagnosed with essential tremor when I was 24 years old. Today I am 59. I take propranolol (beta blocker), primidone and frontal (anxiolytic). With advancing age, tremor, even with all this medication, has worsened. I'm trying a new alternative which is HIFU (High Focused Ultrasound). The treatment consists of the emission of a focused ultrasound performing a unilateral strategic injury in dysfunctional pathways in certain diseases, in this case Essential Tremor.

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Thank you for posting this. I also take propranolol for tremors but it doesn't work either. I have read about it and was actually going to do that ultrasound procedure. They do it at Barrow here in Phoenix. The reason I did not is because I have AFib and you could actually wind up with a bleed in your brain as well as doing a tube MRI is not my favorite thing to do at all. but I'm going to have a procedure done to take care of the AFib and possibly after that I might look into it. I'm not exactly sure where you are located but I know they have several different places that they can do that procedure. There have been several other studies that I am looking into for essential tremors. I basically like doing them to help others. so I wish you luck with that ultrasound treatment. and yes after a while there's nothing that will fix it. but the videos that I have seen it's miraculous what the ultrasound can do but they can only do one extremity at a time. which would be fine if at least one of my hands would work.