Hand Tremors

I'm not sure how long this has been going on, but for the past couple of months I've noticed that my hands shake a lot in a lot of random situations. Or maybe not so random, because if I were to try and hold my hand up flat it would either start shaking or my fingers would start twitching. It's a little freaky, but I can live with that. When it starts to affect me and my daily life, errr..thats a different story.

I notice it at work a lot. At least once a day when I go to hand someone their hand or something my hand just starts shaking out of nowhere and I can't really calm it. It's not that I'm nervous or anything like that, I'm sure of it. I know when I'm nervous and when I am, my hands, nor body ever shake.

Tonight I setup a time and place to go to a LAN center to meet up with some of the local Unreal 2004 players and go a few rounds. After I got off the phone with the manager of the place, I decided to get some more practice in before I go to sleep. Everytime I went to aim something, if it wasn't in a thick crowd that required fast movements, my hands would start shaking, making an across map lightning gun pick near impossible. I have NEVER had this problem before which is a little frightening. I don't get nervous when I play and it's not like it meant anything. I just feel as if it's getting worse.

Sooooo...Does anyone else have this problem, and if so is there any way to alliviate it for the time being without resorting to our good friend diazepam? I tried to do a search on WebMD but I wasn't exactly sure what I was looking for. Apparantly only people over 60 years of age have this problem :(

I sometimes got that as well, i don't know what its caused by, seems like lack of sleep + too many high stress games. For FPS's, i switch over to twitch shots (extremely fast aiming and shooting) which allow me to not have to attempt to aim smoothly. Otherwise, sleep more, or drink more, ya hoe.

My roommate has the exact same problem to a staggering degree 24 hours a day. He's 26. He cannot even come close to holding his hand still. I've never asked about it, because I don't know if he really has something wrong with him and if it's a sensitive subject. He can't really do a few things that require fine coordination (like put jewel cases in a Seal King bag. He tears my bags to shreds). But the thing is he's a world class drummer down to the finest control of volume, so his overall "macro" coordination is fine.

Wow.
Your entire hand, or just small muscle contractions in certain areas?

I would dare to call it a muscle spasm, which from my knowledge is perfectly norm, and could have spawned from excessive use of hand labor when your muscles could be going tired.(late night video gamimg, perhaps?)

I 100% Do Not back up anything that I have just claimed as medical truth, just a lil' random insight that I thought you could use.

The twitching and stuff is mostly in my finger tips and the back of my hand. I'm going to go to sleep in a few minutes and try and get at least 6 hours of sleep in, then possibly take a nap before I leave for the match and see what that does.

Cheebs: I know what you mean. I have a lot of senior customers and every so often I get a customer with major hand tremors. I just act as if nothings wrong, be friendly and try and help them as much as I can without making it obvious =X

you think it might possibly be arthritis? my older sister had a case of that with the shakey hands and what have you. made things really hard for her at school because it affected her writing. maybe it wasn't even arthritis? could be that's what you've got though.

Rest is the best thing for it, I feel.
Once again, I'm not porfessionally linked to any medical members of my family, but it may also be a lack of nutrients.
If you'd like to humor this notion, try and fit in a glass of milk or something with calcium and it could aid as a temporay(sp?) fix.

It might be hypoglycemia?

Or low iron levels in the blood?

Or just nerves being a little funky?

Have you talked to a doctor about it yet? If anything, my guess it has something to do with diet.

I used to get that.

I was worried it was a blood problem (not enough sugar, low/high pressure, w/e), but never to the point where I saw a doctor. When it would happen, I would eat/drink something with sugar in it, and it would stop. Started thinking it might be some kind of diabetes bullshit (this is when I was at my fattest, so I was worrying). Used to make me feel a bit weird, too... can't explain it too well, but I knew it was happening. Like, I felt that feeling, and knew that were I to stick out my hand, it would be shaking.

Well, nowadays, I don't get it anymore, but it was frightening. Can't be a weight thing for you, unless the exact opposite condition bears similar results.

I get them sometimes, especially after playing basketball, rugby, etc. I don't think having the physique of a heroin addict/marathon runner helps things, since I probably don't have the muscle endurance to "lock" my hand in place after a lot of activity.

In other words I think it's because I'm a big pussy.

I believe this news.

I get this problem with my legs sometimes, one of them will shake pretty violently sometimes. It usually has something to do with weight and power focusing, but I would take the advice from everybody in the thread, probably has something to do with rest and/or stress.

Sounds like intention tremors to me. My dad gets them often.

To be perfectly blunt, you look like a skinnyass caffiene junkie. Do you guzzle cola all the live long day? That'd do it to ya. I'm not trying to insult or anything, that's just my take based on your photographs.

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He used to, and now he's trying to stop... or maybe he isn't.

It could be a caffeine addiction that's begging for a fix.

You got Parkinson's.

Sucks for you.

One of TNL's most popular, Shakey, got his nickname years ago because his hands do that all the time. I don't think he knows what the deal is either. He's also known as Shake and Bake when he's high, and most recently he has gained a new title, Shifty, because he fucked up.

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One of TNL's most popular, Shakey, got his nickname years ago because his hands do that all the time. I don't think he knows what the deal is either. He's also known as Shake and Bake when he's high, and most recently he has gained a new title, Shifty, because he fucked up.

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LOL. Great name.

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You got Parkinson's.

Sucks for you.

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Nah, it's way too early for parkinson's. Nobody gets that before they turn at least 50... unless, of course, you're Michael J. Fox. And if it started a couple months ago, it's been going on too long to be a form of withdrawl.

Uhm... maybe you should go see a doctor.

Malnutrition, possibly.

Eat something. Like fruit. Oranges. Apples. Kiwi.

Get more sleep. Drink less caffine, more water. Drink orange juice. Try that orange juice with calcium and vitamin D.

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I get this problem with my legs sometimes, one of them will shake pretty violently sometimes. It usually has something to do with weight and power focusing, but I would take the advice from everybody in the thread, probably has something to do with rest and/or stress.

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I get this too when lifting weights. I was told something similar to what you were, and so in our case I don't think rest or stress has anything to do with it.

Are you drinking diet soda or eating sugarless candy or gum by any chance? Aspartame can cause these sorts of tremors.

I'd like to third the "doctor" argument. They know more than the lot of us.

...unless one of us is a doctor.

THough, I've been averaging four hours of sleep a night and drinking caffeine to wake up during classes, as well. If the above is true, I've gotta watch myself, as well...

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I'd like to third the "doctor" argument. They know more than the lot of us.

...unless one of us is a doctor.

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Yes. Don't rely on video game forums for high-level medical device.

I noticed something similar six or more months ago, but it's not to the degree that I've gotten it checked out yet. Did worry me a little, though.

Yeah, this is something you need to see a doctor about. Don't self-medicate.

I had a similar condition develop years ago and it turned out I had a mild seizure disorder. I recommend getting some qualified medical advice before you have a seizure or something.

This sounds pretty serious S|1p, alot more then my thread when my hands didn't seem to thaw out after a month or so. Anyway, don't bother with WebMD, do what I didn't and check with a doctor, I think if you get tremors like that pretty often that you should go see it checked, I doubt it's nervosity, like you said, you know when it is. Ya said it's been going on for the last couple months but do you know if something might have happened months back that could have triggered it? Maybe you burned your hands and killed your nerves or something...

Might not be Parkinsons but it could be MS.

I can't hold my hands all that steady. Neither can my brother, neither can my dad, neither could my grandpa.

It's genetic.

It gets worse with the more pressure I'm under, so if I'm trying to cut something fine with an exacto knife I have concentrate as hard as I can to get a straight cut without a twitch sending me off-line.

This is also how I first noticed it: One day during lunch back in Grade 6 I was on the last level of Super Mario Land. My friends asked if I was scared, because my hands looked like I was shivering.

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One of TNL's most popular, Shakey, got his nickname years ago because his hands do that all the time. I don't think he knows what the deal is either. He's also known as Shake and Bake when he's high, and most recently he has gained a new title, Shifty, because he fucked up.

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cute.

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I get this problem with my legs sometimes, one of them will shake pretty violently sometimes. It usually has something to do with weight and power focusing, but I would take the advice from everybody in the thread, probably has something to do with rest and/or stress.

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Shit... when my car got wrecked I was pretty pissed off. But then I got all worried about a bunch of stuff and when I was looking under the hood and underneath the car assessing the damage my left leg had the shakes big time.

Yeah dude.. That would happen to me all the time when i stayed up late studying and drinking alot of Pepsi, it was because of lack of sleep and too much caffinee. The best thing is what most people are telling you, cut back on the pop and get more sleep, and it will go away with in the next like 3 days once the rest catches up with you.. Good luck dude :D