My hands shake... how do I lessen this shaking?

Organichu

My hands shake often even under fairly 'light' stress. If I try to squeeze a bottle of ketchup my forearm will just start shaking crazily. I can't even hold out a camera phone (which weighs what, several ounces?) without my camera-hand shaking and taking an unfocused picture.

Things to note:

1.) I am (physically) in phenomenal shape, weight lift quite strenuously, and do a great deal of cardiovascular activity.

2.) I intake very little caffeine and I ingest no supplemental stimulants.

Any ideas? Holding an iPhone at arm's length or even just holding out my hand to look at it causes my hand to tremble. What the crap? This is a lifelong thing I guess. Not sure if it's something that's gotten worse... I've always noticed my hands shake more than the average person. I just make note of it now because I was eating at a diner tonight and trying to put ketchup on my fries and I squirted ketchup on the apron of the waitress who until that point was so gonna give me her number and remind me of the feminine form for the first time since I went home to Israel many months ago and oh God David Archuleta has such a strange speaking voice and LOL @ Randy Jackson.

Halp?

1ddqd

I have the same thing; I am in pretty good shape as well but I can't take a steady picture to save my life.

I also have a habit of bouncing my leg when I'm sitting idly. Could there be a connection?

Fizban140

I have pretty steady hands, as in I can hold my hand out and my fingers don't move at all. I have known several people with hands that shake a lot, one was an artists and he drew all the time and the other wrote all the time. I think that is what does it, because when I write a lot or use my hands for something strenuous my hands are not steady at all afterwards.

Oh and I bounce my leg all the time so I doubt that is it.

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Organichu

Aegeri wrote: »

Is there ever any pain associated with the shaking?

Nah, I've never had any pain.

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ihmmy

talk to your doctor. trembling is often a sign of worse neurological diseases/disorders, including nasty things like MS. Testing is good, very good

Everywhereasign

A signal I was taught to ID Essential or Kenetic Tremors, see if it changes when you get a little tipsy. If after a few drinks you find yourself more steady, not only does it indicate that it could be one of Aegeri's described neurological issues, but that medication could be very helpful.

See your doctor and get some tests done either way, if for no other reason then to put your mind at ease.

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Cowboy Bebop

If your taking in a lot of sugar for energy when your doing your work out you might be having a sugar crash. If I'm not mistaken one of the side effects is 'the shakes'.

bowen

Shaking can be benign or something completely fuckupity.

Get it checked out, if this is your hands especially. This was one of the things the doctor check for when I got tested for hyper/hypothyroidism.

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Sarcastro

Triptophan? You might need some, milk and a turkey sandwich, yummy!

There's a couple of things this could be, but it sounds like your pumped up a lot. Does it help if you work with your hands? Not in using them to lift weights and such, but dextrous work, like spinning pens and such.

I used to have small shakes in my hands when my fingers needed a workout. I spin objects around my fingertips, knives and pens usually, but also quarters and toonies (poker chip sized coins) until my fingers get tired. Like burning off nervous energy. Working out makes the shakes worse, like my fingers want to be in on the action as well.

ihmmy

Aegeri wrote: »

ihmmy wrote: »

talk to your doctor. trembling is often a sign of worse neurological diseases/disorders, including nasty things like MS. Testing is good, very good

Multiple sclerosis is unlikely, because you usually get symptoms like a change in sensation to touch (which can be neuralgia, extreme pain with a hot/cold feeling on touching something), blurred vision, general weakness, double vision and finally balance problems. This is why I asked if he was in any pain originally.

ET can be an early sign of parkinsons disease, but generally not MS.

t'would be why I said things like, not exclusively one thing. I just remember stories of my grandma shaking while in the hospital (and she had ms quite badly)

either which way, I'd still mention it to a doctor so that some testing can be done. They may tell you nothing, they may shrug it off to say, minor nerve damage or something, who knows. But it'd be better to get some testing done in case it is something that's easily found and treatable

Regina Fong

Trying to have a potential neurological problem diagnosed over the internet is a bad idea. It could be so many things, some of them actually bad, a lot of them not.