To finish off 2013, two CLIPPERS cases are reported in a single paper which focuses on movement disorders. In the first case, the problem was limb tremor and mild dystonia. In the second case, the problem was hand and facial jerks, which manifested two years after CLIPPERS was diagnosed. The authors suggest that movement disorders, although not "classic" CLIPPERS symptoms, may be present because of the lesion location in particular cases. They point out that, in such cases, specialised treatment for the specific movment disorder may be warranted. (Incidentally, I'm not sure if this paper is freely available, but if anyone is interested and has problems accessing it, they can click through to the author information on the journal web-site and try emailing them for a "pre-print".)
Interestingly, I developed some intermittent stiffness and jerking movements in my legs after I began steroid treatment in 2011, but these gradually went away. They were definitely coincident with the start of treatment, but I've no idea why they should have appeared. My (no doubt completely wrong) theory was that as the brain inflammation improved slowly in response to steroids there was a period where some affected bits of brain were only partly functional?
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