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Neurology (Expert Forum)
Could it be a movement disorder?
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Could it be a movement disorder?
by Shery__0__0, Mar 20, 1999 12:00AM
I am 28 yrs. old for the last year I have been going to the doctor for strange feelings in my legs, burning sensation in my back and shakes in right leg and right arm. one of the doctors diagnosed me with an anxiety disorder, and put me on Buspar. Less than a week later my right arm started having a sever tremor, it would not stop. Another Doctor sent me to get an MRI of the brain and it came out negative, he referred me to a neurologist who still has to put me through more tests. He put me on a medication called Clonazepam, I have been on it for two days and it has controlled it considerable. Everything I have read on this medicine seems to be about anxiety. Do you think that It could be just a nervouse tick? I realize I still have several test to do. I just don't want to think I am going nuts. thank you.
Doctor's Answer
by CCF neurology MD MM, Mar 20, 1999 12:00AM
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It is difficult to characterize your tremor without more information, specifically the sort of information which can only be obtained by a detailed neurological examination.
I do not think you are ' going nuts ', anxiety can manifest in a variety of ways including tremor, however clonazepam is used in a number of disorders apart from anxiety.
These include epilepsy and it has some role in treating tremor.
Your physician could have used it for either reason, or possibly a combination of both, either way it seems to be working, but I would suggest that you ask him which is the promary diagnosis he has in mind.
