Re: Update on Bethany Continued ET

[Guest guest]

<< The other curious thing that she said is that her tremors are NOT

related to the CMT. I do not understand. >>

I wonder how she knows?

Tremor Scale (symptomatic complaint of tremor in any part of the body)

0 == Absent (no tremor or writing impairment)

1 == Slight and infrequently present (mild tremor, writing, and drawing of

spiral minimally impaired)

2 == Moderate; bothersome to most patients (writing and drawing of spiral

moderately impaired)

3 == Severe tremor (writing and drawing severely impaired; interferes with

many activities such as drinking liquids)

4 == Marked tremor (interferes with most activities)

Once a diagnosis of ET is established, studies may be performed to rule out

preexisting conditions that may also produce tremor (e.g., hypothyroidism,

drug-induced tremor, 's disease, lesions of the cerebellum or midbrain,

peripheral neuropathy, traumatic injury, etc.).

Other tremor-associated disorders include acute and chronic polyneuropathy;

hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth

disease;

Guillain-Barré syndrome; metabolic neuropathies (e.g., Refsum syndrome,

etc.); and peripheral nerve entrapment syndromes.

http://www.wemove.org/et_ts.html