This definitely sounds like Essential Tremor and not PD. If you put more
pressujre on your finger the tremor gets worse. if you take alcohol,
thetremor will sub side. These are teh symptoms of ET and not PD. I had
this problem since my teenage, but when I got older (at age 67) I started
developing symptoms PD except resting tremor. I am told that about 30% of
people wth ET develop symptoms of PD in their old age.
Check with an MDS and get his confirmed.
Wish you all the best.
Raj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roberta Innarella" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 11:07 PM
Subject: To Raj
> Raj, I "shiver" on the affected side when I'm even just holding a piece of
> paper in that hand. Is that considered resting or action? I do not have
> small handwriting but handwriting on the unaffected side gets worse under
> stress, especially when holding the paper with the affected side. If I do
> not hold the paper with the "shivering" side, my handwriting is much
better.
> This disease is very confusing. Roberta
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to:
mailto:[log in to unmask]
> In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn
----------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask]
In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn
