I'll be 74 in October and I have been treated for ET for 12 years. As if that's not enough, now I have something going on with my hands! This started about a week or two ago. I felt a numbness in my right hand, followed by a loss of coordination that made it difficult to use the touch screen on my iPad. Control of my fingers became especially difficult and my hand kept drooping. I found it difficult to perform simple tasks. But, this condition is temporary. It has come and gone, increasingly. It is now happening daily, sometimes three or four times in a day. Once it passes, after perhaps half an hour or so, I regain normal use of my hand. A few days ago, the same thing began with my left hand, but it has only happened once, so far. Is this a form of peripheral neuropathy?