”A beautiful life does not just happen. It’s built daily by prayer, humility, sacrifice, and love.” – Anonymous
So I thought I’d do an update on my anxiety and how my DBS system seems to be working for me. I have been on my new anxiety medication about 7 weeks. With that being said my anxiety has been much better lately so therefore my tremors have gotten better too. Back when the anxiety was affecting the tremors I bumped the stimulator up two notches on both the right and left. That seemed to help. A couple days ago my boyfriend noticed I was slurring my speech. I decided then to bump the stimulator back down the two notches to see if that would help my speech. I had thought if the anxiety is better then it might not have to be bumped up those two notches. After doing that my speech was normal again and my tremors were 100% gone. That’s been about a week ago and so far still doing good.
Until next time…..
I hope this very thing happens for my husband. His speech gets slurry at a higher setting. A lower setting doesn’t control tremors as well. A delicate balance, for sure! Continued good luck to you! Love the blog
Definitely when he goes in to be programmed again mention it all a there is so much they can do with the settings. I am so glad you like the blog. Keep me posted if you will. 😊