Chapter 259 - Severe Tremors

She has been halving her Deralin in weekly steps up to last Monday 6th August when she ceased taking it at all, from 10mg during the previous week. Quite soon extreme leg tremors appeared, so much so that her slippered feet beat a fast rhythm on the wooden floor of our living area. On the nights of the Monday & Tuesday her sleep was quite disturbed. I vaguely remember her saying that she rose for the loo 5 or 6 times, having great difficulty returning to sleep afterwards. She wanted to return to taking Deralin again, I wanted her to persevere for a few more days; in the past medication changes have seemed to require a week to stabilise. By 2030 on the Wednesday I had to relent; she took a 10mg Deralin & her relief was almost immediate.

Until last week she seemed impervious to the cold. Whenever I turned on any heating she quickly complained of being too hot. From about the time she stopped the Deralin her system switched to sensing cold, to the extent that she began requesting a small fan heater be switched on in the back room. On one occasion I found the temperature to be excessive, and far from complaining, she felt just comfortable. Now after several days back on the Deralin she again seems to be tolerating the cold.

Since reducing the Deralin she has not experienced any short intervals of dizziness or blurred vision and the only tendency to fall was when her tremors were bad and accompanied by a feeling of toppling backwards.

She also had a wog, caught from me, for almost two weeks and that may have interfered with her medications. Anyway, for the time being she will remain on the 10mg Deralin until we see a PD nurse in Hot Air City this coming Thursday.

She traveled well to meet friends at the club up the road, although the large lunch did not agree with her Saturday night medications. Family visited us on Sunday when we had another club lunch, this time locally.