Can anyone help or know about severe shaking w/anxiety disorders?
November 24th, 2009
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hi, ive had anxiety problems all of my life, have seen many doctors and have been on many medications, currently i take propanolol,wellbutrin and luvox. Now my problem is in the past two years my anxiety jumped to a different level, no changes in life or anything that seems to cause it. the shaking is what is seriously affecting my life. my hands tremble almost all the time even when my anxiety is relatively low. when i get anxious, i shake very bad enough to drop things and have uncontrollable muscle movements. The doctors ive been to are good but besides the anxiety and panic disorders i dont know how to stop shaking, PLEASE help.
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hi, ive had anxiety problems all of my life, have seen many doctors and have been on many medications, currently i take propanolol,wellbutrin and luvox. Now my problem is in the past two years my anxiety jumped to a different level, no changes in life or anything that seems to cause it. the shaking is what is seriously affecting my life. my hands tremble almost all the time even when my anxiety is relatively low. when i get anxious, i shake very bad enough to drop things and have uncontrollable muscle movements. The doctors ive been to are good but besides the anxiety and panic disorders i dont know how to stop shaking, PLEASE help.
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Categories: Health Issues | Tags: Anxiety And Panic Disorders, Luvox, Medications
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My dad has these problems and takes his medication but still shakes its just one of those things you have to get on with i guess
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I understand what you’re going through! I shake a LOT too.. I don’t think there is too much you can to – to be honest – but maybe you should see an anxiety specialist .. if you have not already.
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focus on something else besides your shaking
do not focus on things in the past or future. (as this can make you more anxious)
think of something in the present
(for example, if you are in a room, count everything that you can see that is blue)
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Just a thought, have you ever had your thyroid tested? I suffer from anxiety and panic disorder and have for over 20 years now, but about 5 years ago, I started getting the shakes so bad, my whole body would be off balance when I would walk, and to grasp something in my hand was crazy. I thought it was the anxiety, but even though my doctor increased my meds, it did nothing to help. So, finally the doc did a tsh test (for thyroid) and there was the problem. I was hyperthyroid, and after treatment, it all went away. I am not saying this is what is going on with you, but I would say have your doc check your tsh, t3 and t4, it may be worth a try.
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This is a broad, broad topic, best answered by trained healers who are well informed as to your life and medical history.
I can, however, share my own experiences. –I was dealing with these apparently random and unexplainable moments of high anxiety and emotional melt-down a couple of years back. They’d just hit me out of nowhere and it had me very concerned. I lived like this for about a year, and it kept getting worse until I noticed that my hands were shaking all the time, (though not a bad as you describe yours).
My girlfriend at the time brought home a book she’d found somewhere, and I thumbed through it. (It was about stress). It had one of those woman’s magazine-style checklists where you answer Yes or No to a variety of questions, each one with a number rating if you ticked off ‘Yes’.
Included were things like, “Have you moved in the last year?” “If yes, more than once?” “Have you changed jobs in the last year?” “Have you experienced large, unexpected money shortages in the last year?” etc.
Well, I’d experienced a great number of these things on a list of about thirty items, and I thought I’d dealt well with each of them at the time, but when I added up the numbers, the book practically shouted at me, “YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!”
This completely threw me. It never occurred to me that I might be suffering from stress. I just thought, “This is life. I’m dealing with it.” But apparently, the effect of lots of difficult change is cumulative and the body/mind remembers and has a limited capacity to deal with it before it begins to break down. I really have to say that again: I didn’t think I was stressed at all, but when I worked it out, suddenly the anxiety attacks made sense. In retrospect, it should have been totally obvious, but it wasn’t.
So I made some changes in my life, (broke up with my girlfriend for starters, who was directly responsible for nearly all of those stressful events), moved to new place where I could expect a more sane and controlled environment, and almost immediately, the stress attacks diminished and eventually vanished, my shaking hands became steady, and life got good again. The funny part, is that whenever my ex girlfriend would come to visit, the symptoms would immediately jump back into being, as though my subconscious was scrambling in fear, even though on the conscious level, I knew I was safe. It took nearly a year before I felt normal whenever I met her again. (Despite all of our issues, we remained friends; she wasn’t a bad person, she just had a very manic personality which was out of control. Her battle to get her own impulses under control has been hard fought as well.)
Anyway, it has been my experience, both with myself, and with others, that environment, relationships and daily activities, if they are not in tune with a healthy, stable life, will cause enormous stresses which many people simply don’t recognize, and so deal with using drugs.
More complex, is if one grew up in a dysfunctional family environment with lots of fighting between parents or guardians, then it causes the developing brain to wire itself with a much greater stress on Fight or Flight circuitry, which means that later on in life, small stresses which do not normally affect others can have a huge impact on you.
My suggestion to people who suffer from anxiety is always to fix their lives and get out of problem relationships. But please keep in mind, I am not a doctor and I do recognize that there are people who have legitimate need for pharmaceutical solutions.
Good luck!