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glowe920/ I have been on propranolol 10mg. for ages and Klonopin, I have had this in my 20's.
I hate it so much. The only thing that helps is a glass of wine before dinner. I am not on blood
pressure meds. I have low blood pressure. what blood pressure meds did he give you that helped you?
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I'm leaving my lane and maybe the roadway, but I wonder if your dosage of propranolol is sufficient. I started with 40 mg, either once or twice daily. It reduced my tremors within a few weeks. Eliminating them took a yr. I reduced my dosage whenever I could, as I don't like drugs and propranolol has side effects, like any drug. Just short of a yr, I tried stopping propranolol, but a small tremor returned. A few wks later, I tapered again, but very slowly, and the tremors did not return. (Very impt: don't quit propranolol abruptly; always taper! Or else you may encounter a cardiac side-effect.) It's been 17 mos and I've only had a minor recurrence of tremors twice, each for an hr or so--both times when I was under stress and failed to address it.

A variable may be the type of tremors. Mine were active, not passive, and arose quickly and hard. I'm not sure if a doctor ever classified them as "essential tremors" or left them as tremors--"not otherwise specified"--the NOS subtype appearing to apply to everything involving my neurological misfirings!!

Also, I guess the wine works as a calming agent. Of course, it's a central nervous system stressor. I had to quit because I just don't have any cognition to lose. For calming, I now drink a glass of whole milk, sour cherry juice, or valerian tea, but I wonder if these remedies would have worked when my tremors arose; I don't know because, back then, I didn't drink the tea or juice and didn't drink much milk.

I hope you find some relief from the tremors.