Linda,
Best wishes for your quest for your mom! My understanding is that usually a Parkinson's tremor is at rest, like you said. Mine is quiet when resting, but my legs can dance when I'm standing still! There are a lot of ailments with some charachteristics of Parkinson's, and a lot of Parkinson's with charachteristics of other ailments. We are quite a mixed lot!

It sounds like your mother is going through the process of ruling out the things that are easier to rule out - MRI of legs, for instance. Seems like I had a brain MRI to rule out Multiple Schlerosis, blood tests to rule out ailments in the arthritis family, other blood tests to rule out ailments in the muscles themselves, thiroid tests . . . Does you mom have symptoms like stiffness, slowed or delayed movements, shuffling footsteps, balance problems, or other movements "issues" in addition to what you mentioned? I don't need to know, of course, but these are things to watch for and to write down for the doctor's information.

Lucky mom to have her kids looking out after her like you are!

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