Essential Tremor?? Voice Parkinsons?

[codemonkey]

Hi, I am a 38 year old healthy male, besides some high blood pressure.  I was diagnosed around age 35 with essential tremor, due to small visible rest tremor only in my hands.  I have a family history of Schizophrenia and Parkinsons, so at the time I was very concerned I was in early stages of Parkinson's.  
Recently something weird has began happening, when anxious (meetings, speaking, etc.) I have noticed my voice goes VERY raspy and strained, also has a quivering tone to it.  Does not do anything for my career as it sounds like I am scared sh-tless, when in reality I am just a little nervous or anxious.
I went to a ENT doctor and he never heard of the voice trembling thing in relation to essential tremor.  
Is this early Parkinson's?  Essential Tremor?  I also started taking Benicar for my high blood pressure, any correlation to that?  I don't know what kind of doctor I should even call to get help....
Also, I just remembered that I do get a weird trembling all over the back of my neck muscles very rare but also when I am very anxious....

[Jules77733]

Anxiety is definitely not helping your situation, though I can't blame you given your family history.

Have you had a CT scan or MRI of your head to look for lesions that typically present with Parkinson's?

[mini_d]

Hi,

A tremor in the voice is one of the features of benign essential tremor, and it increases when under stress or anxiety. That being said, Parkinson's sometimes presents with features that are indistinguishable from essential tremor. So, with your family history in mind, you should visita neurologist to definitively rule out Parkinson's as a cause. If that is not the reason for yoursymptoms, then taking treatment for ET will relieve you of some symptoms.

Do keep me posted

Regards