What Causes Tremors With Normal CT Scan And EKG?

Posted on Fri, 17 Oct 2014

Question: My husband has dementia, but not Alzheimers. He has been taking Namenda and Aricept for years. He is physically healthy and his caregivers take him for short walks. A week ago after about a half block of walking he developed considerable shaking and grabbed the caregiver for support practically knocking her over. She called paramedics and they took him to a regional hospital. After many tests, EKG, Ct scan, urinalysis, blood tests they found everything to be normal. The doctor gave him IV fluids and sent him home. And he was fine up until today when he developed the tremors again but not as forceful as last week.
She sat him down for about ten minutes and then he was fine and continued on home. He is taking a multiple amounts of medication like blood thinners, etc. as he had a quadruple by-pass in 2002 before he had a heart attack. Is it possible that his medications caused his severe tremors? Thank you!

Answered by Dr. Sudhir (42 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Rather than medicines, these look like seizures.

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

In view of incidence details, this looks like seizure or convulsion attacks.

In most such cases investigations are normal.I think he should see a neurologist, if not seen already.

Rarely a hypoglycemia or electrolyte imbalance can present like this.

May be doctor will get a EEG of head done for him.

Please ask if there are doubts.Regards.

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