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Did Hip Surgery. Taking Altrum For Pain. Having Involuntary Hand Movements Like Tremors. What Are The Causes?
Question: involuntary hand movements. what are the causes?
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Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for using health care magic for posting your query.
I have gone through your question in detail and I can understand what you are going through.
However I would require a couple of more details to help you in answering your query in a better justified way.
1.What was the nature of involuntary movements
was it repetitive, same type, occuring in both hands simultaneously, fine movement like tremors or gross movement, repetitive or single movement. If repetitive, how frequently at what interval.
2. Since when are you having these symptoms?
3. Are you on any medications.
I understand that these are lot many questions, but they are necessary to understand the nature of your illlness. Hope to hear from you at your earliest convenience.
Regards and wish you good health,
Dr. Srikanth Reddy MD
Neuro-Psychiatrist and Sexologist
Clarifications
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for using health care magic for posting your query.
I have gone through your question in detail and I can understand what you are going through.
However I would require a couple of more details to help you in answering your query in a better justified way.
1.What was the nature of involuntary movements
was it repetitive, same type, occuring in both hands simultaneously, fine movement like tremors or gross movement, repetitive or single movement. If repetitive, how frequently at what interval.
2. Since when are you having these symptoms?
3. Are you on any medications.
I understand that these are lot many questions, but they are necessary to understand the nature of your illlness. Hope to hear from you at your earliest convenience.
Regards and wish you good health,
Dr. Srikanth Reddy MD
Neuro-Psychiatrist and Sexologist
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
1.What was the nature of involuntary movements
was it repetitive, same type, occuring in both hands simultaneously, fine movement like tremors or gross movement, repetitive or single movement. If repetitive, how frequently at what interval.
ANSWER Same type occuring in both hands simultaneously like tremors.
2. Since when are you having these symptoms?
After fractured hip surgery. There is a rod/pins from hip to Knee implanted.
3. Are you on any medications.
WAS on percacet initially, and is NOW on altrum for pain.
was it repetitive, same type, occuring in both hands simultaneously, fine movement like tremors or gross movement, repetitive or single movement. If repetitive, how frequently at what interval.
ANSWER Same type occuring in both hands simultaneously like tremors.
2. Since when are you having these symptoms?
After fractured hip surgery. There is a rod/pins from hip to Knee implanted.
3. Are you on any medications.
WAS on percacet initially, and is NOW on altrum for pain.
Brief Answer:
Causes for the tremors
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for posting the details.
The tremors that you are having in both hands could be due to following reasons:
1) Medication side-effect
2) Onset of parkinsons disease
3) Benign Senile tremors
The most common cause appears to be medicine side-effect . Many medications can cause such tremors. You treating physician will need to go through all the medications that you are on and identify the medications which may be causing tremors.
The other possibility is that parkinson's disease which starts at around this age can cause these tremors. These will require levodopa. The characteristic tremors of parkinsons along with other symptoms can be confirmed after a look at your gait.
Thirdly many old people have these tremors for which the cause is not evident. Its called ideopathic benign senile tremors. Some say its a variant of parkinsons disease and should be treated likewise.
Hope I am able to answer your concerns.
If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you.
If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for me, so that I get a good feedback.
In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link:
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Wish you good health,
Kind regards
Dr. Srikanth Reddy M.D.
Causes for the tremors
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for posting the details.
The tremors that you are having in both hands could be due to following reasons:
1) Medication side-effect
2) Onset of parkinsons disease
3) Benign Senile tremors
The most common cause appears to be medicine side-effect . Many medications can cause such tremors. You treating physician will need to go through all the medications that you are on and identify the medications which may be causing tremors.
The other possibility is that parkinson's disease which starts at around this age can cause these tremors. These will require levodopa. The characteristic tremors of parkinsons along with other symptoms can be confirmed after a look at your gait.
Thirdly many old people have these tremors for which the cause is not evident. Its called ideopathic benign senile tremors. Some say its a variant of parkinsons disease and should be treated likewise.
Hope I am able to answer your concerns.
If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you.
If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for me, so that I get a good feedback.
In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link:
bit.ly/dr-srikanth-reddy
Wish you good health,
Kind regards
Dr. Srikanth Reddy M.D.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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