The Orthostatic Tremor Forum (archive)

Hi Amanda, I am new too. I just got diagnosed a week ago. I have gotten progressively worse over a month. I am trying the Klonopin, but it is making me very sleepy. The first few days on it, I slept most of the time. The last couple of days, I am forcing myself to stay up, but I am very sluggish. So...

I'm new to the forum. I'm new to the disease. I just got diagnosed a week ago. I'm so over-whelmed. I have been out of work the last couple of years because I was taking care of my husband that had cancer and then he died and I didn't work for a while because I needed to grieve. I am a speech pathol...

Hi all, I'm new to the forum, the diagnosis and everything. My questions is this. I am on clonazapam (Klonopin) .5mg twice a day. It makes me so sleepy that I am sleeping most of the day. This of course will not do. I cannot go through life sleeping all the time. I know that sometimes it takes a bod...

Hello, My name is Linda. I was just diagnosed on Monday. I started with having my legs shaking when I was going down the stairs. Well that is what I think as my first clue, but looking back, I see at times when my legs shook at other times or my arms when I put weight on them. Primarily though, it s...