Posted: 2/3/2010 4:06:49 AM EDT
| Anyone else ever have this? I don't drink more than once or twice a week. I drink about 3 cups of coffee each morning. I also use chewing tobacco. I'm just wondering if any knows what may be causing this. |
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Cut back on the joe and chaw, see if it slows/stops. In the last year or two I started getting jittery from what I considered my "normal" two cups of joe in the morning. Used to make coffee you could stand the spoon in too. Backed off to one cup of lava or two cups of watered down and it mostly quit.
Sucks gettin old. |
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Dude, you take two stimulants daily. Cut out the caffeine and tobacco and see what happens. (Hint: your hands will stop shaking.) You do realize what you're asking, right? I'll switch to decaf. and cut back on the copenhagen and see if it helps. I guess I just needed to hear someone else say it. |
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low blood sugar? No diabetes or other history. Pretty healthy family on both sides. It could be anything from too many stimulants or hyperthyroidism to Parkinson disease. You can't diagnose over the internet, so you need to see your GP or internist for a hx/physical and maybe a couple of simple tests. 
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Google "essential tremors" doc told me i had this when i was 23 and sent me to a local support group, i was the youngest person there by 40/50 years and it really didnt help "support" me at all seeing all these older people needing help from their s.o's they tried all they meds that they can think of and none worked and some actuality made the shaking worse. i am 28 now and dealing with the shaking as it comes and goes some days are worse then others but i still go out and enjoy shooting handguns and rifles(and yes i do hit the target where i aim). the Dr. told me that the shaking will get worse in my case and since they found it when i was young it will be bad when i am in my late 30's early 40's . he also told me that alcohol in moderation will help and i have noticed that after a drink or two the shaking stops when people ask what is wrong i tell them and i get pity in return i fucking hate pity 
i also have eliminated all caffeine from my diet and that helps make them less s |
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Dude, you take two stimulants daily. Cut out the caffeine and tobacco and see what happens. (Hint: your hands will stop shaking.) You do realize what you're asking, right? I'll switch to decaf. and cut back on the copenhagen and see if it helps. I guess I just needed to hear someone else say it. I'm not a regular coffee drinker, but too much of it makes me jittery. Definitely try cutting back on the coffee a bit, you don't need to make the switch right to decaf. And cutting back on the Cope will also help. It is just a stimulate overload. |
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I've got bad news for you... You're a cannibal... Lay off on the long pork before you go totally mad-human-disease. I love Texas. One of the most beautiful places I've been to. The only problem with Texas...... Texans they're probably east/westcoast transplants. or from aztlan. or you're not getting off their lawn. |
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i'm almost 32. my hands have been shakey as long as i can remember. i have never smoked, never had one drink, and don't drink anything with caffiene (don't like carbonation). it comes and goes, and seems worse if i am tired, stressed, nervous or am trying to concentrate on something...like threading a needle.
tag for interest. -matt |
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its tremors Quoted: I have the essential tremors also got worse last year head & hand tremors. I'm 56, my shooting not as good as use to be. Alcohol sure helps but worse next Am. I take Klonopin sometimes not very often. Going next week to try accupunture. my grandfather was one of the first to get the implants installed with the pacemaker to control the tremors, they are switch activated, so when he needs the fine motor control , he turns it on and his tremors lesson greatly. he has had a lot of problems with the implant though, especially the brain portion and the wire leading from the brain to the pacemaker that is remotely mounted in his chest (not heart related) |
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I've got famililal tremors in my hands. My father has them also but worse. It's hereditary. I'm 48, noticed them about 15 years ago or so. No real problems, just my hand shakes if I were to say try to pass a gravy boat around the table with one hand. It's worse when I'm tired or stressed.
You do need to get checked for parkinson's though. |
| Sadly, someone I knew in highschool has MS real bad. He cannot stand for very long without pain, and is pretty much wheelchair bound. He was a good wrestler in high school and even got a wrestling scholarship to a pharmacy school. It was at college that he first started showing symptoms of MS. He went downhill fast in his thirties. His wife left him, he had to retire on disability, and he was pretty low for a while. But he then bounced back a little and wrote an autobiography about his experiences, to help and inspire other MS sufferes. |
| Another story, a friend of mine took a known town drunk to lunch. The drunk was his replacement for a job that my friend was leaving. They both went to a mexican place and ordered tacos. The drunk loved the tacos, but complained about them falling apart in his hands. My friend watched in horror as the drunks hands were shaking so bad that the tacos would fall to peices in his hands while he held them. |
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Anyone else ever have this? I don't drink more than once or twice a week. I drink about 3 cups of coffee each morning. I also use chewing tobacco. I'm just wondering if any knows what may be causing this. I've had it my whole life. I have a normal pulse rate and blood pressure. I've even tried eliminating caffeine from my diet and it doesn't stop. |
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Google "essential tremors" this. if your grandad did this then it's probably not parkinsons, just ET. i got really freaked out thinking i had PS after my divorce when i was stressed big time and drinking way too much and barely sleeping and i started losing fine motor control (which is how i make my living, which made it even more stressful) and i talked to my doc and he asked me if my grandparents exhibited that, and when i said yes he kinda chuckled and told me about essential tremors. a huge load off, but i still had the symptoms to a lesser degree for a while until my life settled back down. now, nothing at all. it may manifest to a lesser extent again as i get older, but just knowing what it is mitigates it considerably. edited to add: i'm 50. |
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I'm a coffee fueled machine, and end up shaky most of the time.
I also get shaky if I don't eat all day. College ftl. My favorite was spending an all nighter studying for an exam, drinking 2 3 shot espressos black, then having to write an in exam essay. I don't think the teacher was able to read it. |
