Poll Do You Shake?

[piglet]

I get the shakes quite often. It can be when I wake up in the morning, maybe due to energetic nightmares? It really difficult to get my hot chocolate powder from the jar to the mug without spilling any!!!

I also get the shakes when I am angry, or when I have been exercising. The funniest time is when I go cycling - I can't stand up on the pedals, as my legs shake so much I fear I might fall off!!! I also have difficulties with clutch control if I'm in a line of traffic. Apparently is called a "postural tremor".

I also get the shakes when I'm just sitting - I tend to be tense a lot of the time, and my legs kinda do their own thing!

Anyway, after much rambling, I shake.

 

[anthony]

I tidied the questions to this poll... incase anyone notices the changes.

I was obviously the first to select "I don't shake" as I don't. I used too when my PTSD was uncontrolled, but I haven't shaken in years. I am just... pretty normal nowadays.

 

[Deleted member 93]

I clicked both PTSDs and both types of shaking. I know that quiver inside. I don't tremble as hard as I used to, but over 10 years ago I shook bad enough all the time my boss would come up to my desk and grab my hands as I typed and say "Stop shaking". Drove him nuts but I was actually used to it back then. But back then I did it without my nerves hitting so hard, now it is when I am in a high strung mode it hits the worst. I think the internal kind is harder on me as it is like a shake that will not come out.

 

[Lisa]

Veiled... I like that description - that it is like a shake that will not come out and that's why it's harder.

that actually describes partly why I hate the internal shakes so much, so thank you!!

 

[Marlene]

Just in this past week I've been having external tremors. They seem to have a mind of their own as to stopping and starting. Putting on my eye make-up is a real treat!

At first I thought it was because my blood sugar was dropping (trembling is one of my cues that it's time to do something before I bottom out). But after making sure my blood sugar was ok, the trembling hasn't stopped.

I feel like I'm on that TV show 'Trading Spaces'...but with a new title-'Trading Symptoms'. Every time one goes away, a new one pops up. They say variety is the spice of life...but this is ridiculous!

 

[Grama-Herc]

I took to the poll and short as it was,still was happy to help. I tremble inside with my panic/anxiety attacks. Sometimes I tremble so hard inside I swear I think people can see. When the tremors come it is very unnerving and then I begin to break out in a severe cold sweat till I am wringing wet. Isn't it fun to share all of these lovely symptoms with eachother? At least we understand them. My mother thinks I am having hot flashes LOL HERC

 

[Lisa]

LOL Oh herc..... which would you prefer?!

 

[pandora]

i was prescribed atenolol (it is a beta blocker used for people with heart problems) it helped my shaking a lot, when this first started happening. I haven't used it in a while but it does help. I also have a cousin with PTSD and she shakes too, she finds acupuncture helpful. The shaking made me feel so totally out of control.
I think i would rather have hot flashes, my mother just says get on with your life..stop feeling sorry for yourself..Ya I love this life. Sorry, i am having a HUGE poor me day, well week.
Take care everyone.

 

[Grama-Herc]

Pandora
We all need our own little private pity parties once in a while. Nothing wrong with that. AND it drives me nuts when people assume we are just feeling sorry for ourselves or when they tell us to just get over it! ! ! ! Makes me want to scream. Sometimes I do scream---into my pillow so I don't freak out the neighbors ya know. Anyway, let's here it for hot flashes. May they rest in peace, please LOL HERC

 

[reallydown]

i shake...quite a bit...when scared or angry mainly...as stuff come sback to me (i guess that qualifies as scared...)

 

[Jet]

I shake internally almost all of the time, sometimes it is better, sometimes worse but it is always there. If I am shaking externally it is usually going to be when I am in or close to being in panic mode.

Growing up showing any kind of emotion was a weakness, it made you a target. I have always figured that the internal shaking had to do with that. A "physical" reaction that was not visable. A way for the body to react and work off excess adrenalin or something.

 

[responsiblek9]

When tired or stressed I shake visibly externally. But I also have a TBI from a child abuse injury when I was age 3 also that impacts the neuro system too.
So that has to be taken into account also.