Benign Essential Tremor, or BET, is a movement disorder that causes uncontrollable shaking in the head, hands, arms, and legs. According to an Essential Tremor Fact Sheet, Benign Essential Tremor is the most common movement disorder worldwide, affecting between four and 40 people per thousand. Benign Essential Tremor is a slowly progressive disorder, but it ...
Marijuana is a common recreation drug, which is the most common recreational drug used in the United States and perhaps the world. In 1997, a survey of 12th graders found that about 50% of them had reported smoking marijuana at least once. Despite the public ‘s perception that marijuana is a benign drug with minimal ...
If you suffer from occasional or frequent vertigo, you may be suffering from benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Chances are that if you are suffering from periodic vertigo, you probably have BPPV, because it is one of the most commonly diagnosed types of vertigo. Symptoms of BPPV The symptoms of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo are ...
A cancer occurs when a cell or cells abnormally divide when they should not. Cells are the body’s basic unit of life. Examples of cells in the body are red blood cells, muscle cells (sometimes called muscle fibers), and bone cells (osteocytes). Each type of cell can join or combine with another same type of ...
An adenoma is a collection of growths of glandular origin. Adenomas can grow from many organs including the colon, liver, kidney, adrenal, thyroid, pituitary, and appendix. These growths are usually benign, which means non-cancerous. However, over time they can progress to become malignant, or cancerous. Though most adenomas are benign, they still have the potential ...
A couple of years ago I was diagnosed with Benign Essential Tremor. My first thought was, “Wonderful – just what I need. Another illness to add to my growing list that includes Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Interstitial Cystitis. When I first went to visit the neurologist, he thought I might possibly have Parkinson’s Disease ...
I can honestly say i do not know what i will do if one more person tells me that I’m “lucky” because my brain tumor is ‘just benign’. Slap them? Karate chop them to the neck? Or, perhaps take the more rational approach and simply have them read the statistics and research done on benign ...
When I took our youngest daughter to her 18 month checkup, the pediatrician muttered something about a heart murmur as he listened at her chest with his stethoscope. My gasp probably led him to listen several more times and eventually let me know that it was considered a “benign” heart murmur. “We’ll just listen at ...
Several years ago, I had a very unusual and unpleasant experience. I had a dizziness that was so severe that even with my eyes closed lying down, my head was swimming and I could feel my eyes moving back and forth and struggling to focus even though my eyelids were closed. I was nauseous even ...
Recently, a friend of mine was diagnosed with fibroadenomas, a benign breast disorder also affecting millions of American women. With the fear that the lump in her breast was a life altering diagnosis of breast cancer, my friend was surprised to learn the condition was simply an age progression of the breast tissue and not ...
