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Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Feb 19 11:30pm | Replies (49)

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Do you have pain? I have pain, pulling and tremors. I think the worse is the pulling. I had to get drunk and take Klonopin on my wedding day. My neck was pulling really bad and I could hardly walk down the aisle. I just kept on drinking Champagne. I hate this disease. It has ruined my life and I came out of the womb with this mess.

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@oakbourne Have to laugh because with my cervical dystonia, drinking did temporarily help. (by the way Clonazepam and Klonopin are the same thing for those reading our replies). I had to stop drinking with Carbidopa-Levodopa because I got terrible vertigo. I know I shouldn’t be drinking anything, but that one drink took the pain away. Ugh. Something weird,as well, my tremors completely disappeared while hiking at high altitudes (> 9,000) in Colorado. It was heaven. When I came back down to around 6,000, they returned slightly. Back in CT, they are full-blown. We had already been in Colorado for three weeks, so got used to altitude change. Obviously, you don’t want to fool around with oxygen deprivation, but this may be a research hypothesis.