I may have Parkinsonian tremor, am I going to die?

My head started to tremor 5 years ago. I think it tremored for a while until it stopped. But it came back a few days ago. Now my head keeps on tremoring and it tremors more than last time. What is Parkinsonian tremor? I did a research on it, but I can barely understand what I read.



What's the treatment for it? Is it Painful at all?



My brain is deteriorating and I have headaches sometimes (I don't think they're related to migraine).



Just to let you know, I have autism PDD/PDD-NOS, learning disability, cognitive disability.I may have Parkinsonian tremor, am I going to die?
You do not have a Parkinsonian tremor. Your symptoms do not fit it at all. Sounds like 'essential tremor'.- which is not life threatening or causes your brain to deteriorate - it is just annoying.



How do you determine that your brain is deteriorating?





ETA: "Isolated head tremor may occur in essential tremor but not in Parkinson disease. When considering the diagnosis of essential tremor in patients with isolated head tremor, clinicians must take great care to exclude patients with abnormal posturing (i.e., a head tilt or turn) and muscular co-contraction, which are signs of dystonia (spasmodic torticollis). Parkinson disease rarely, if ever, causes head or voice tremor, although the upper extremities may shake so violently in Parkinson disease that the head and torso shake secondarily. "

http://www.pdcaregiver.org/Tremor.html



"Essential Tremor is the most common of all movement disorders and never leads on to any other, more serious illness which may have life threatening complications. If you are diagnosed with Benign Essential Tremor it will always be just that. Essential Tremor is often compared to Parkinson's Disease but the two illnesses are quite different. Essential Tremor causes uncontrollable shaking when the affected part is in use, whereas with Parkinson's Disease the tremor will occur when the hands are at rest, also Parkinson's sufferers usually are only affected in the hands, whereas with E.T any part of the body can be affected."

http://www.essentialtremorinfo.com/whati鈥?/a>



"Clinical Characteristics of Essential Tremor



Essential tremor (ET) is considered the most common neurologic movement disorder. It may affect as many as 10 million people in the United States and be 20 times more prevalent than Parkinson's disease. ET is a chronic condition characterized by involuntary, rhythmic tremor of a body part, most typically the hands and arms. In most patients, ET is considered a slowly progressive disorder and, in some patients, may eventually involve the head, voice, tongue (with associated dysarthria), legs, and trunk. However, in many people, the disease may be relatively non-progressive and the tremor may be mild throughout life." "All tremors usually disappear during sleep. Unlike the resting tremor associated with Parkinson's disease during which muscles are not voluntarily activated, the symptoms of essential tremor are either absent or minimal during periods of rest."

http://www.wemove.org/et/et_cc.html











Lots of people have headaches sometimes - what about yours is special?
The best thing I could tell you to do is to go see a doctor and get a proper evaluation. From there the doctor will know what to do next.I may have Parkinsonian tremor, am I going to die?
you really need to see a neurologist-there are many things that cause a tremor-



and parkinsons usually starts in the limbs--not the head...

even if it is parkinsons--there are treatments--Michael J Fox (actor) has had it for years..if you get parkinsons now--there may be a cure before it becomes fatal....





i have never heard of a parkinsons tremor going away for a long time and than coming back
Seizure more likely, tremor probably not. Some occassional twitch but that nothing compared to parkinson or seizure.



I may have Parkinsonian tremor, am I going to die?
Sounds more like the tremors you develop when you take certain meds for a long time. Go see yr doctor. Stop getting swamped by those terms for learning disability. They don't have anything to do with a tremor. Tell them to check out those medications which can cause dykenisia or something like that.
Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease



Parkinson's disease belongs to a group of conditions called movement disorders. The primary symptoms are the results of decreased stimulation of the motor cortex by the basal ganglia, normally caused by the insufficient formation and action of dopamine ,which is produced in the dopaminergic neurons of the brain. Secondary symptoms may include high level cognitive dysfunction and subtle language problems. PD is both chronic and progressive.

http://www.hpathy.com/diseases/parkinson鈥?/a>
You need to see a doctor
seek your doctor..better that way.
Parkinson's Tremors are somehow related to, but different than Parkinson's disease.



Parkinson's Tremors are not harmful, just annoying. It is NOT an indication that you will ever develop Parkinson's disease.


You should see a doctor.