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Originally Posted by willie002
I'm one of the lucky people that has a lot of tremors both at rest and during movement. My doctor maintains that the only tremor that indicates Parkinson's is the at rest and as soon as you start movement the tremor goes away. In several publications lately their saying that Parkinson's tremors aren't just at rest but their finding folks are having Parkinson's Tremors during movement also. I'm getting a little confused here as which tremor is which so I can understand what's going on. Any information?
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Like many, I am becoming cynical of these new "scientific" "findings". This sounds like someone is widening the net to include more people in the group they call "PD" so they can sell more drugs.
Absurd? Examples:
Normal blood pressure used to be (and "normal", again a term someone defined) 130 and even further back was higher...now it's down to 120...why? The more folks that creep over the 120 mark, the more HBP drugs can be scripted. Keep in mind that our blood pressure naturally goes up as we age, no matter how healthy we may be-it's because our arteries lose elasticity with time.
Another example: blood sugar. Used to be "normal" was 140, now it's been dropped down to 130 I think, meaning more and more people can be "diagnosed" as being diabetic.
And really? After all these years of "the four cardinal signs of PD" including resting tremor, the main one, actually, now it is not just resting tremor but also action tremor? What about the fact that there are hundreds, literally hundreds, of causes of tremor? Sheesh.
Maybe this is good, because it shows how little is known about this collection of symptoms that has been called PD. But what would we do if they came out and also discovered that cogwheel rigidity is also not definitively linked to PD? What do we take away from announcements like this?
If you have cites to the articles saying this, I know we'd all be interested to read them.