[Nigelin]

Hi, my name is Nigel (nigelin on the forum), a Scot that has lived and worked in Madrid, Spain for 54 years and is fully bilingual English-Spanish. I am now 85 and still very active, in good general health and enjoy the company of our children and grandchildren and friends, who all live fairly close.

I must have had essential tremor (ET) for many years as I have always had almost illegible handwriting and had great difficulty as an engineering student passing exams in technical drawing. My father also had a tremor, and although it was not diagnosed as ET, it probably was. Although considered for electrode brain stimulation, after careful examination of a tomographic brain scan, the neurosurgeons told me that I was too old for the procedure, which was a disappointment. I also have a nephew and a niece in London, aged about 55, both with ET, and a grand-nephew aged 20, who also has it, so I was very interested to come across to an ongoing, and so far successful, development of a completely non-invasive treatment for ET. I will paste the link below, in case anyone is interested. Although the tremor is nuisance and I can no longer write, I doubt whether the procedure will be developed in time to be of any benefit to me.

I haven't been allowed to show the link. Can anyone tell me how to get it to you?

I also mention that I have idiopathic peripheral polyneuropathy (PN), that has developed over 20 years or so. I do not suffer much pain at all, but considerable lack of balance, which to me is more debilitating than ET, as I now need to use a walker outside the house and, what is worse, it keeps me from Scottish Dancing! My neurologist - a good one I think - has given up on me on this score, so that if anyone can point me to any new developments in this field I would be very grateful.

[mrsD]

Welcome to NeuroTalk:

We do prevent new members from posting links for a short period. This is to screen out spammers, who take advantage of our membership. After you post for a brief while, you will move out of the probationary time frame.

[Rrae]

Welcome!

It's nice to meet you!
You'll be amazed at how many people here (including me) battle PN. You are certainly no stranger to it - maybe we can learn from YOU!

Here's the link to the Peripheral Neuropathy forum:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/fo...sprune=-1&f=20

Be sure to check out the top part of the PN forum. The 'Sticky' section has alot of good information and also there is a section at the very very top called "PN tips, resources, supplements, etc." There have been alot of new developments and research on this very frustrating condition. It's actually quite encouraging.

Folks here are very down-to-earth, so make yourself right at home. Just holler if you have any questions!

Rae

[Darlene]

Nigel,

Hello and welcome to NeuroTalk. Happy to see you have come to be with us. Just let us know if we can be of any help. There are great number and caring fellow members here, you will see we are supportive and relaxing place. Our shoulders are here for support in many ways.

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Darlene