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Ian I was first diagnosed with "essential tremor" An MDS diagnosed me with PD due to the way my leg shook. I have never had "pin-rolling" tremor, but my grandfather did. The DBS surgeries really tamed those tremors but nothing else. Everyone has a different story. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Menkins" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:18 PM Subject: Question: The "Rest Tremor" in PD? > Hi everyone, > > I am a 38 year old male living in Australia. > I have a question relating to the rest tremor in PD. > I have often heard the rest tremor in Parkinson's described as a "pill > rolling tremor", but have never fully understood this. The description > varies greatly from text to text. Some texts describe it as a slow yet > rhythmic back and forth motion which appears as though the person is > holding a pill in their cupped hand and rolling it about within the palm. > Other texts describe it as rubbing the thumb and forefinger together > rapidly, as though the person is rolling a pill between the thumb and > forefinger. Another text I read said that if the patient rubs their thumb > and forefinger together, the activity is sufficient to cause the rest > tremor to stop. But this seems to contradict the very nature of the tremor > as described in the other text! > I have a rest tremor and would never describe it in the terms of rubbing > my thumb and forefinger together, mainly because this would mean that my > thumb and forefinger are moving in opposite directions to one another. My > tremor is more like the first description, as if I have a pill resting in > the palm of my hand and I am attempting to roll it about. If I hold my > fingers out flat and try to relax, I get more of a "flutter" type motion > in my fingers. The thumb and first two fingers seem to flutter the most. > Is this a typical rest tremor or do I have something else? > Ian > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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