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How To Treat Essential Tremor?
My mother has got a diagnose of essentiell tumor. her head and upper body is shaking all day long. She got something called betablock for her suffer, but she couldn't use this medicine - she was stumbeling, couldn't speak clean, and she looked like she was on drugs. i don't think her doctor knows wchich medicine to give her. In advance of this she got some medicine that removed all her cortisol out of her body - she is lucky to be alive.
Mon, 30 Jun 2014
Hi,
Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted your mother's symptoms. They are suggestive of essential tremors.
In essential tremors, there is shivering or shaking of head, voice and hands. It may run in families, and therefore, it is also called as familial tremors.
Beta blockers are the drugs of choice for treating essential tremors. It seems that your mother had side effects with that.
Options for her include low dose beta blocker such as propranolol 10 mg once daily.
If she has side effects with low dose propranolol, then, she may try clonazepam tablets at night or topiramate tablets in day time.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
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Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted your mother's symptoms. They are suggestive of essential tremors.
In essential tremors, there is shivering or shaking of head, voice and hands. It may run in families, and therefore, it is also called as familial tremors.
Beta blockers are the drugs of choice for treating essential tremors. It seems that your mother had side effects with that.
Options for her include low dose beta blocker such as propranolol 10 mg once daily.
If she has side effects with low dose propranolol, then, she may try clonazepam tablets at night or topiramate tablets in day time.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Click on this link to ask me a DIRECT QUERY: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar
My BLOG: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.in
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