Guest guest Posted July 18, 2006 Report Posted July 18, 2006 Zenaida, There is no evidence that suggests Parkinson's is part of CMT. If you are experiencing tremors - the shaking of hands, or head, etc., like people with Parkinson's have, this simply may indicate that you have CMT 1B - this shaking in CMT is known as Roussey-Levy syndrome and was originally found in gypsy families by doctors Roussey and Levy in the 1920's and later the mutation for this gene mutation was assigned to the type CMT 1B. (But now others with different 'types' of CMT also experience tremors) If in fact you have Parkinson's in the family, I hope you talk to your doctors about this. It is an important part of your family medical history and should be included in your file. It is possible for someone to have BOTH CMT and Parkinson's, but like I said, or was trying to say, they are 2 seperate neurological disoders. ~ Gretchen Quote
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