Hi! Shirley:
All the text books say that the main difference between Essential Tremor
(ET) and PD is that ET is characterized by action tremor (hand tremors when
you do something with it - the more force you apply to your fingers, the
tremor gets worse- either writing or lifting smething, while people with PD
display resting tremor (tremor when you are not doing anything, constantly
shaking eg. Ali's case). But there could be some exceptional cases. If you
just have action tremor and no other symptoms of PD and if your tremor
dissipates under the influence of alcohol, it is considered ET and not PD.
But, according to Dr. Lieberman about 10% fo PWP do show action tremor! I
have not read that anywhere else. May be Dr. Bob Fink can clarify this.
You should check with an MDS.
With best wishes,
Raj
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Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: One side is worse than the other, why?
> Raj, is that correct -- People with PD do not shiver when at rest?
>
> Shirley
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:36 PM
> Subject: Re: One side is worse than the other, why?
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> > The reason I asked about ET (esential tremor, a lesser evikl compared to
> PD,
> > but could equally become a big neusense! ) is that you mentioend your
hand
> > shakes when you write. PD normally is charactered by smaller
handwriting
> or
> > micrographia. With PD, the hand does not shiver when doing something,
but
> > only during resting. But, when sleeping also it should not shiver.
> >
> > I had chronic symptom of ET even when I was a teen ager, but only
> recently
> > (at age 67) I was diagnosed with PD on top of my ET. But, I have only
> > action tremor so far, not much resting tremor so far. If I want to
borrow
> > Michael J Fox's language, I should say "I am doubly lucky!"
> > Best wishes.
> > Raj
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