Movement Disorders Including essential tremor, dystonia and Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS).


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Among other neurological problems that the VA can't diagnose I've started involuntarily stomping my feet while standing. This will only last a few seconds and I may only stomp them 5 or 6 times. This has been going on now since early Feb this year. The civilian neurologist I'm seeing now has suggested that I see a 'movement specialist'. I'm looking for some answers that might be causing this. I have had CT and MRI scans of my brain, cervical and thoracic spines and they show no problems nor does all the lab work I've had done. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I'm hoping that if I get to see a movement specialist that they can come up with something but in the meantime does anyone have any ideas?

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What do you mean "stomping"?
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What do you mean "stomping"?
Maybe I should have used the word 'marching' as in LRLRLR
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Does it happen when you think about walking?
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I've only noticed it when I'm standing still and just suddenly have the urge to 'stomp'.
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I remember a time when I had the urge to march. It was when I was on Paxil. I was up and down the hall 100+ times a day. It was awful. Needless to say I didn't take Paxil very long. I was like the Energizer Bunny.
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I'm not quite that bad and the only medications I take are 800mg Ibuprofen for the headache I've had for over a year.
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HHMMM? Your headache might have something to do with it. Or the Ibuprofen? A side affect perhaps of long term use?
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The headache, according to my current non-VA neurologist is more likely a 'rebound' headache from Ibuprofen overuse. I'm waiting to get some meds from the VA that I can take to get me off the Ibuprofen. According to her no, the marching/stomping is not caused by the Ibuprofen.
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Look it up on the internet.
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