My daughter who is 26 has, twice in the past year, gone through very long periods of shaking violently and uncontrollably.
This is usually preceeded by a change in her speech...Mixing up her words or rambling. If she recognizes it in time she can sometimes stop the tremors with ativan. On occasion, unrelated to the tremors, she has passed out or come very close to it. It has completely taken over her life. She once had to take 13 ativan to stop the shaking enough to go to sleep from exhaustion. The ativan, for some reason, goes out of her system very rapidly. I took her to the emergency room (one of about 10 times) and although she had taken an ativan 30 minutes before going to the er, there was not a trace of it in her blood nor urine. The doctor(?) basically said she was a liar and that she was causing the shaking for attention. She has been to numerous neurologists, had all kinds of testing and they
all tell her that it's stress. Her life now consists of having these "pseudoseizures" and sleeping them off. Has anyone out there had anything like this, does anyone know what it is, what can be done? I know my daughter and she is not doing this to herself. They also tell her it may be panic disorder. I have panic disorder and the symptoms are nothing like what she is going through. As I said this is consuming her life and I am beginning to be afraid of what she may do out of desperation. If anyone has had this experience, please reply. Even knowing she's not alone and not losing her mind might help a little. Thanks!!!