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Internal tremors

Posted by rsuter98 @rsuter98, Mar 14, 2023

I’m a 58 year old woman. Post menopausal and possible hypothyroidism that I haven’t gotten confirmation. I have had a ton of stress over the last 4 months due to family issues. I couldn’t handle it so I got on Zoloft for 2 weeks and then stopped cause I felt better. 4 weeks later I felt an inner vibration and starting getting anxiety about it and a week later I started having internal tremors especially waking and doing daily activities. I have had a lot of anxiety in my past and remember having these nervous tremors but not lasting this long. (A month now) started taking Zoloft again to see if it helps. Not yet but it’s only been 5 days. When I’m home and calm after work I don’t feel it. Unless I do some house work but not all the time. Only in morning and going to work as a mail carrier( physical work) stress does seem to make it worse . Just scaring me .Please advice

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mitfit | @mitfit | Dec 23, 2023
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I’m a 47 year old female and I am experiencing internal tremors and other strange neural symptoms. I have always been an anxious person and easily stressed but have never experienced this before. It all started at the end of August during a period of extreme stress when I had a 2-3 minute episode of what felt like my heart racing. A couple of weeks later I began to feel my body shaking internally on waking. It would last 10-20 seconds then disappear. By the start of October I was experiencing this every morning and by mid-October it was joined by other symptoms - an internal tremor I can feel all the time, like an electric current passing through my body, a buzzing on and off in my left foot, pins and needles in my hands and feet, prickles, tingles and muscle twitches all over my body and a wave of what feels like goosepimples all over my body. Bloods showed I am low in iron so I have started supplements and I have also started HRT to see if that has any affect but so far there has been no improvement and I am stuck with these symptoms every day. My GP thinks it is a response to chronic stress. She gave me beta blockers to help with anxiety but they haven’t had any affect on the symptoms.

Nobody i know has ever experienced or heard of this so I guess I am just hoping to hear from some fellow sufferers to get a bit of support and understanding. These symptoms are so hard to deal with and are themselves making me really stressed. I just wish they’d go away! Never thought I’d be stuck with this for months and months.

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What meds are you taking? I am taking Cymbalta and it has helped. Some days the tremors are very light and other days (like today) they are heightened.

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tia50 | @tia50 | Jan 15, 2024

I had them mildly and they have increased. A cart and horse of anxiety, not sure for me which comes first. As I wake up and move around I feel them less. Almost pre diabetic (working hard not to be through diet and exercise) and when my fasting blood glucose is higher it seems my internal vibrations upon waking are also up. I can almost predict what my FBG will be based on the internal tremors I feel especially in my lower legs and feet before I even get out of bed.

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mistalyntam12345 | @mistalyntam12345 | Jan 3 1:48pm
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I don’t have any of the anxiety issues you mention however I get vibrations on the soles of my feet that go up the back of my legs. It’s as though a heat pump, air conditioner or furnace was turned on and the floor vibrates and I can feel it in the soles of my feet. This happens more if I am tired or didn’t get a restful sleep. Then the next day when I wake up the vibrations are there and quite strong. It would be impossible not to notice them. Wondering if anyone else out there has a similar problem?

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@willows
I have had "benign" internal tremors for years now. It started out intermittent, then very quickly became 24/7. The only time I do not notice it is when I am asleep. It started in the back of my head, then down into my upper arms, then down my back all the way to the bottom of my feet. I have Chiari Malformation type 1 and Hashimoto's. I have been to various doctors, had multiple MRIs, and have been told it is a "benign internal tremor". I have learned to live with it, but I would love to have a definitive answer!

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papsls | @papsls | Jan 25 9:12pm

Have your tremors stopped? I figured out what was causing mine. I was drinking an electrolyte drink everyday and it has been making me toxic

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heatherangela | @heatherangela | Jun 2 1:16pm
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I have read a lot about this being a common symptom of long COVID, my heart goes out to those suffering! I must be one of the few people who has never had COVID so it isn’t the cause for me. I think it is perhaps a combination of stress and perimenopause in my case. It isn’t my first rodeo with strange neural symptoms. Six years ago developed chronic vestibular migraine which gave me horrific symptoms 24/7 for a whole year then repeatedly for months long periods. Mostly affecting my head but also in my body. I did get some pins and needles and a feeling of heavy limbs sometimes then. I didn’t have an internal tremor though. Sometimes I wonder if it is somehow related to that, as I did have some mild vestibular migraine symptoms for a few days when the initial racing heart feeling happened in August. Unfortunately I have some ongoing stressors in my life so can’t see how I can try to turn this around right now.

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@birdy555 Did you ever find a resolution?

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