Re: muscle twitches, tremors, dystonia, and ativan

January 10, 2001

Trudy, thanks for this information. Good stuff. }

Willa

muscle twitches, tremors, dystonia, and ativan

> I may have learned something useful about muscle twitches and

> tremors. I was also trying to figure out the events at night where

> my heart feels like its beating a mile a minute, but my ekg is okay.

>

> Following up on a lead from , I looked on the web about

> dystonia, which he said a lot of afib people develop. This sure

> sounds like it. I also found a web page where they were talking

> about Xanax helping to suppress dystonia tremors. I think Xanax and

> Ativan are very similar. So I took 1/2 Ativan just before going to

> bed last night (I started at 1/4, but that wasn't enough.) I could

> feel the tremors trying to break thru, but they were suppressed

> enough that I could get to sleep, and I slept thru the entire night

> instead of waking up every 2-3 hours with those fake events. Also,

> this morning I woke up feeling normal, instead of weak and shivery.

>

> If I were having these attacks in the daytime, I think I might rather

> go thru a few minutes of an attack and then have peace and quiet, vs.

> having a long drawn out grumbling thing, but based on this tiny

> sample of one night, I think I have a help here.

>

> Trudy

>

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