Essential Tremor Patient.flv

Patient advocate speaks out on how to use shaking as an ice breaker with people who notice the symptom of tremor but are unaware of what causes it.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• essential
• tremor
• shaking
• movement disorder
• neurological
• activism
• advocacy

[doogydawg]

I have this in my head, arms, hands, and chest, great video for speaking out.

[tremoractionnetwork]

@doogydawg Thank you for the compliment!

[samiekoski]

I'm only seventeen & i was diagnosed with essential tremors last april, this was the first video I watched on ET.

[tremoractionnetwork]

@samiekoski Please feel welcome to contact us. We can also put you in touch with someone close to your age.

[uskauboj]

This fellow is dealing with his affliction well, and brave to have made this vid. All the best to him and all sufferers.

[tremoractionnetwork]

@larrypetree Please feel welcome to join our online support group Tremor, that is hosted at Yahoo.

health.groups.yahoo.com/group/­tremor/

[tremoractionnetwork]

@jazzyjiscool Does your other hand shake too? Just posted a twitter tweet @tremoraction on the findings of a behavioral and electrophysiological study, where measures can be used as markers to confirm diagnosis of PD and ET.

Also another @tremoraction tweet shares that tremor severity was more severe in non-dominant hand in 62% of study participants.

[phocjame]

Thank fuck i'm not that far along yet.

Still, i'm sure another forty years will change that :(

[Ilovemyhorsenick1]

Thank you for your posting. I have just recently been diagnosed with ET. I am now having head "no-no" tremor, hands and legs. I am planning to use humor as a tool to cope with my ET. I had cancer and tho the pain was intense, I tried using humor. So maybe I will advertise as a human back scratcher? Im 62 and am fortunately am still able to work (lots of puter work). Im not gonna let this beat me!

[martinclembo]

Hi my friend, many thanks for sharing your experience. My name is martin I live in the UK. I have started getting the symptoms of essential tremor in my hands and a little in the head. It really gets worse under stress. Do you take any medication for this? By the way I would find you great to chat too!

Regards