Is Ptsd The Reason Why My Hands Wont Stop Shaking.. Ever?

[Red Feather]

I shake a lot. Mostly in stressful situations. But when everythings feels stressful, I can go on shaking all day long. Sometimes I just don't even notice it because it happens so often. I think the nerves also make it difficult to go pee sometimes too. :eek:

The meds have helped my shaking issues, but it still can come back if I feel under pressure or stressed in one way or another. I find that breathing helps a lot. Breathing in and holding the breath into the stomach until I can't hold it any longer and then slowly letting it go. That helps a lot.

 

[thedude]

While I was in a MRI tube I started having flashbacks thinking that the chuh. chuh, chuh and dit, dit, dit were choppers and gunfire. My heart rate started to climb and within a couple seconds I started to have tremors in my hands and legs.

My trauma involved whether or not my left hand was going to be strong enough to prevent a fatal fall. When I have flashbacks I shake, pace, and my hands start to uncontrollably clench and release. During therapy sessions its often the worst as I am "stuck" in a chair and cannot pace to burn off the fuel that is being produced to help get ready to provide a death grip.

In public I often use one hand to clasp the other or join my fingers together in what I guess would be called a mudra when I am starting to get anxious.

I would like to thank 712xx for their advice and echo their input on using manual labor as a form of therapy. A broom or a rake and mindfulness of the task can really take the edge off. A hand exerciser called power putty used to help me with conditioning and since I could carry it in my pocket I would use it whenever caught in traffic, laundromat, bus etc.

 

[catjudo]

They have also whiched my meds around. I take my pills everyday, but I still have non stop nightmares, and this hand issue.

What medications are you on? Tremors can be a side effect of many psych meds. Has this possibility been discussed and explored?

 

[mylife211]

Now my blood pressure is getting higher and higher, my hands will not stop shaking ever "my hands shake more than my 80 year old grandfather".

I have been having hand tremors for the past three years after going through a divorce. I have PTSD from experiences as a child starting at age 2 till I was 13. I do not have the feeling of comfort about life in general that a person gets from being raised in a happy home. My experience was fear. As an adult I suffer with anxiety and fear. My tremors started as my life went from having her family and her in my life to being alone. I internalize my anxiety and fear and it comes out as tremors.

I am a professional with a Masters degree and my colleagues have no idea but hiding my shaky hands is hard. I have to hold my cell phone with two hands if I want to show someone a pic. My shakiness worsens with stress and anxiety. I have been in therapy and it has helped. Confronting your past can be a difficult experience but it is worth it in the future. Hope this helps and you can find peace.

 

[ClairBear226]

I have essential tremour, which runs in my family. The meds I take make it worse. Add the anxiety, PTSD, and stress and it can get really bad.

This is actually what I was thinking your problem could possibly be. They used to be called benign essential tremmors, I think. Google it. It's a medical condition, and though you might find that PTSD could worsen it, it may very well be that it isn't related. When will you know the MRI results?

 

[Anna]

I also have problems with the shaking. I pass it off as being shy and nervous. Has worked so far.

From your post though, it sounds like your shaking is much much worse. You should really get tested for nervous diseases as well, possibly see a neurologist.

Can you grip things ok? or do they sometimes drop out of your hands?? Really is worth seeing a neurologist and getting it checked over.