Trembling fingers and toes

Vitamin D3 and magnesium deficiency.

Too much coffee. Im serious, I get that way if I drink more than 2 cups in the morning without food. Didn't affect me when I was young.

Second vote for magnesium.

And crap. I am a Zantac user and just Googled and see that it depletes magnesium!

Yup. Is called minor or essential tremor - if it goes away when you drink alcohol that’s what it is. I developed it in my early 30s, it’s where the doctors ended up after they eliminated everything else as a cause, and called the alcohol test the most diagnostic option they had at the time.

It could be anything from anxiety to mini strokes.

It's often associated with essential confines.

^ cuntiness

Meth withdrawl. Get your ass on bus to Palm Springs! Stat!

In all seriousness that could be absolutely anything from very serious to benign.

You need to start at the most serious things, like stroke and rule them out. It may be something simple as sleeping on it wrong.

Low blood sugar? Essential tremour sounds quite possible too.

[Quote]And crap. I am a Zantac user and just Googled and see that it depletes magnesium!

You need to eat more bananas to replenish that, r4.

This (I have it):

Yup. Is called minor or essential tremor - if it goes away when you drink alcohol that’s what it is. I developed it in my early 30s, it’s where the doctors ended up after they eliminated everything else as a cause, and called the alcohol test the most diagnostic option they had at the time.

Propranolol is a cheap, decent treatment.

What r13 said about propanalol. I developed it in my 50's. Thought I had Parkinsons. I was diagnosed with Benign Essential Tremors (apparently the benign part means they don't know what causes it). Katharine Hepburn had it. I've had it under control for about 10 years now.

I agree with magnesium and possibly zinc. Are you experiencing cramps in your hands, feet or jaw?

Pretty common OP. Essential tremors may tend to worsen as you age. Harmless but frustrating. Can be exacerbated by anxiety. Klonopin helped.

R9, is Palm Springs known for its meth?

I was not aware.

I have it too

If you also have leg pains, it's peripheral artery disease - the early sign of heart failure.

It is essential tremor and I have it myself along with myoclonus more often than not.

The best medication for ET is primidone in my opinion. Yes, propranolol is also effective, but if you are already taking a blood pressure and/or heart medication, your doctor will not want to add it along with your current medications. Another class of effective medications are within the benzodiazepines family, in particular chlordiazepoxide, clorazepate, clonazepam, or diazepam.

The reason why I advocate for primidone or those particular benzodiazepines aforementioned is because with these drugs, as you take them, they build up in your system to where if you happened to miss a dose and realize it or not, the metabolites from the original drug has extremely long half-lives (how long it takes to get one-half of the drug out of your system). Yes, these can make you VERY sleepy, sometimes filled with lassitude, and the potential of developing an addiction to the benzodiazepine, but because you have a legitimate reason to take it (because I'm sure you don't want to run out of pills and end up shaking like none other), I'd say the risk is low.

The reason I contend for primidone is because it is similar to the first barbiturate that was discovered: phenobarbital/phenobarbitone. Phenobarbital is used in people who usually have seizures. It's not used as much today because of all these stupid anticonvulsants that don't work and it also is because benzodiazepines phased out barbiturates in the 1960s, particularly chlordiazepoxide and diazepam. If you are more familiar with barbiturates than you are benzodiazepines, I would argue that you ask for primidone versus phenobarbital because, if you live in the United States and/or Canada, phenobarbital is akin to scheduled drugs like benzodiazepines and opioids, meaning that you are taking something that you could potentially abuse. With primidone, your liver metabolizes primidone into phenobarbitone and another metabolite called PEMA that's essentially equal to a barbiturate, but with a weaker action potentially. Also, primidone is not scheduled in either country (I'm not sure about the UK - if you're in the UK, it might be a POM drug), so your doctor can write without having to feel like they are giving you a scheduled drug against something else that you're taking that might make you sleepy. Lastly, primidone is cheaper than phenobarbital and can carefully be watched in your blood and urine tests, should you have to take one.

In my fight with essential tremor and myoclonus, I take both primidone and clonazepam (Klonopin). If I didn't take one without the other, I think that I would still shake and jump like none other. However, I have a high tolerance to both barbiturates and benzodiazepines that my doctor knows that the combination of the both of them may pose a risk, but the benefits they bring keeps me from having to run back and forth to him and the pharmacy to try much more dangerous drugs like anticonvulsants and/or antipsychotics. Don't let your doctor prescribe either class of medicines because they will make it worse - I know because I've ran the gamut of them and I shook MORE on those than I do now with both a precursor to a barbiturate and a benzodiazepine.

Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to explain more in depth than other people about what medications you should ask your doctor to put you on. By the way, there's no real "test" (like drawing blood, biopsy, etc.) to see if you have essential tremor other than the doctor probably asking you to write your name on a piece of paper or draw either a circle or a spiral to see how linear they will be. I hope my information here you can take and research yourself. More should be done to recognize ET as an issue with people, just like CFS/ME should be.

thanks elderloungers. was rx'd a beta blocker. also tried klonopin, and it helped. it happens very randomly!!