Any of you folks deal with it.

Anybody care to discuss what you do to deal with it, what has worked for you, what hasn't?

If you don't want to discuss, send me a PM. Trying to get a general consensus of what meds seem to work the best for most folks.

I've got a little taste of it, tried a few meds so far, not much improvement.

Most of the meds seem to have pretty good side effects which I'm not crazy about. Getting a little frustrated...

I have it, nothing I've tried has helped and it's been getting worse since I retired.
I can barely write a check, handguns are a thing of the past, and I wonder how long I can continue to function.
As to the medicine, Gabapentin is what the doctor prescribes, but it has little if any effect.

You need my doctor. He says a shot of whiskey is one way to ease symptoms and to diagnose it. Guess the old saying "need a shot of whiskey for my nerves may have had merit after all".

First, give up coffee, cokes, tea, etc.. Anything with caffine makes it worse. Especially on an empty stomach. I have taken Bystolic for it but now that I am on Medicare, the drug plan did not want to pay for that. Now taking metoprolol er succinate. One per day. I only use it if I am going hunting, shooting, etc. where fine motor control is important. Both help quite a bit but neither is perfect. But I can still hunt, etc.. so happy for it.

Finally, my doc told me that Betty Davis, in the Rooster Cogburn movie with John Wayne, had a severe case of it. Thus her "shaky" voice. Good news is, it is annoying but does not lead to anything worse.

Best of luck!

Ray

My mom has it, her mom had it, and the symptoms have been slowly coming on for me[53 now]. the shot of whiskey does seem to help.

For those afflicted with this you have my sympathy. My Dad is 86 and doesn't suffer from it but My Grandpop had it late in life and it about drove him crazy.

Canabis oil seems to have promising results.

Those of you use the whisky, is one shot a day or multiples?
What time of day is recommended?
I haven't had a drink in over 40 years and fully intended to go the rest of my life without it, but for help I'd consider it.

I did an experiment last month, you know for Science...

Using a deliver system of Mikes Lemonade which was only 3.2%, I added 1 measured shot of Vodka and drank it down. That killed most of my tremors for right at about an hour. I have lots of body mass, so on a regular person that might stretch out to a couple/few hours if you're lucky. Everybody will process alcohol differently, so your mileage may vary.

Please, read up on cannabis oil and tremors.
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I've taken 40 mg of propranolol for 3 years and it controls the tremors. It has some side effects. Am currently lowering the dose to 20 mg to see if it's still effective.

I'm really glad this subject came up.
Due to the post and some response, I've done some reading and while my Doctor thinks I have the E.T., all the information I can find seems to indicate I have something called Kinetic Tremors.
That's a whole different animal.
Just made an appointment for next Friday and from there I'm going to insist on seeing a specialist.

Your Dr's had too much whiskey. Katherine Hepburn was in Rooster Cogburn.

There's a bunch of different types of tremors that get lumped into the same family. So far I've noticed that I have 2 distinct types.

If I hold my hands out straight, I pretty much look solid as a rock. Give me a soldering iron and a small piece of solder on a small workpiece and I wander around a bit, that's the first type of tremor I've got.

The second type I've got is an internal tremor. You can't see it, I can just feel it. It's like there's a small pager motor going off somewhere in my chest at all times, it radiates down thru my arms and legs. Very minor, but gets old after a while. That is the tremor that bothers me the most, I can deal with the physical shakiness, atleast right now, but I'm working on finding something that will silence that pager motor.

Seeing a specialist is a good idea, especially one that deals with mostly tremors. He'll have more knowledge about what medications will work for your particular set of circumstances. I'm seeing a good Doc, I believe. He's got a wide catalog of drugs at his disposal and he's not afraid to try them all out if folks want to, or if they find one that kinda works, a combination of drugs.

I've really been surprised with this Nerurological stuff, how much of the treatment involves trial and error. You've got heart problems, they've got it narrowed down to a few drugs. Got lungs, liver, pancreas problems, they got particular drugs on the ready. Got neurological problems, here, try this, tell us what you think. Tells me the brain is still a mystery. Just glad I live in the good ol US of A, no matter how bad the healthcare is getting, it's heads and shoulders above some places in this World.

my brother was diagnosed with essential tremor. he went for years on meds that proved to be of No Use. he finally got diagnosed correctly with Parkinsons and the new meds are working
Don't know if its a blessing or not considering. time will tell

I had a student w/ tremors so severe that he could not pass the CCW qual. Changed him from a revolver that he couldn't reload to a Glock 19 w/ big dot sights and after about 4 hours of practice he passed w/ relative ease. He couldn't shoot Dot Torture but could protect his family. Never give up and continue to search for solutions.

Best Wishes


mike r

That's about where I am.
Center of mass and shoot till empty.
Funny thing is I'm better rapid fire, after the first shot I stop thinking and just do it.

Look up intention tremor.