i need help with severe essential tremors?

Question

What to do if I need help with a 504 plan for benign essential tremors?

Answer 1

See a neurologist: See a neurologist. There are medications which may help to reduce the tremors.

Answer 2

Depends on the cause: Tremors may be due to many things such as metabolic or neurological causes. Sometimes they are familial in nature, e.g., essential tremors. Head tremors and shuddering spells occur intermittently, and are usually benign. They require no treatment and improve with age. Unless tremors are disrupting normal motor activities, infantile tremors are not usually treated with medication.

Answer 3

It depends: The first thing to do is determine if these are benign tremors ( a normal developmental process). If not, find the cause and treat the cause. Most causes are treatable. There are support groups available that are organized by the cause of the tremors. Keep in close contact with your child's pediatrician for support, care and updates on the condition.

Answer 4

Sign vs disease : Tremors are a symptom/sign that can have many potential causes. Parkinson's is a disease due to a defined pathology (degenerative loss of Dopamine producing cells in the brain) that usually has a particular type of tremor as a symptom/sign. Essential tremor (aka familial benign tremor) is an even more common disorder than parkinson's, and it's tremor usually looks much different from pd tremor.

Answer 5

Symptoms: Resting tremor is a symptom of parkinsonism but tremors occur for other reasons. Tremor is a symptom and parkinsonism is a diagnosis.

Answer 6

Tremors not disease: Tremors occur secondarily to a variety of causes, including medications, thyroid problems, and a host of neurological mechanisms. Parkinsonian tremors occur when arms sitting at rest, essential hereditary tremors when arms outstretched. The problems occur at different ages and have varying courses and prognosis.

Answer 7

Yes: The best way, of course, is by treating the graves' disease and getting the thyroid levels back to normal. But that can take time, so if symptoms such as heart pounding or racing, shakiness, or feeling nervous or jittery are causing problems, many doctors give a kind of blood pressure medicine called a bets-blocker to help with these. Examples would be propranolol, atenolol, or metoprolol.

Answer 8

Graves disease?: Is an autoimmune disease where thyroid is over actives, producing an excessive amount of thyroid hormone.((hyperthyroidism and thyrotoxicosis). It can appear in children , adolescent and elderly and it can e hereditary.

Answer 9

Fast muscle activity: Tremor is are rhythmic muscle contraction often involving opposing muscle groups. It is often involuntary and can be often suppressed. Tremors affect hands, arms, eyes, face, head, vocal folds, trunk, and legs. At times the tremor is seen in an healthy person (fear, cold temperature, fever...). Many tremors are treatable and should be evaluated by a neurologist.

Answer 10

Multiple causes: Assuming you have whole body tremors, the possibilities include fever, fear, hyperthyroidism, alcohol or drug withdrawal and some medications may cause it.

Answer 11

Yes, several!!: Assuming tremor is severe enough to warrant treatment, the usual list of trial & error options are as follows: Mysoline (primidone) , propranolol, topomax, Diamox or similar neptazene, or even Botox injections. Less often used: Neurontin or zonisamide. Finally, if moderate to severe & meds won't cut it anymore, 2surgical procedures: deep brain stimulation of the stn or radiosurgery to vim nucleus of thalamus.

Answer 12

Yes: Essential tremor is treatable. I find it difficult to believe that a doctor diagnosed you but didn't discuss treatment. Tremor is generally treated by neurologists unless a nonspecialist i.e. internist or family practitioner feels comfortable at least with initial treatment. When tremor is very mild, some patients elect not to treat until it gets worse. I'm OK with that: One less drug.

Answer 13

Yes: The medications help control the symptoms. Doctors commonly used are Propanolol and primidone

Answer 14

Med Rx for ET: Two of the medicines that help essential tremor are propranolol and primidone. These medicines are relatively safe and inexpensive, but their effects wear off after hours, and they must at times be taken every day.

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