Mine are much as you described. I use utensils with large handles which gives them some weight. It makes it easier to hit my mouth :0)
I was at the doctor yesterday (GP) who still insists I have MS...off track...he told me i needed to take my klonopin more often. It does help with the tremors and I know he is right but my goodness so many medications :(
terry
Dennis, I didn't know gabapentin was supposed to help with that problem, but your doc obviously knows more than i do about this and many other things. I'll read up on that. I'm not sure if my tremor has changed since beginning gabapentin (for eye pain) last year.
Jess, you describe the conditions quite well under which I find my hand shaking. However, mine has always been a rhythmic back-and-forth shaking. I'd have to stretch to call it a twitch, which I think of (rightly or wrongly) as being more sporadic or intermittent. Just one man's thoughts.
Part of my first MRI included thin slices through what the neuromaniac called the "cerebellar pontine angles," but nothing showed up there. Not the world's finest images, on a 1.5T system. This year's looked better, IMHO, still 1.5T, but a different lab.
Peace to all.
Jess,
What you are describing is a tremor, and is how my tremors started out. Once it got to the point that all of my food would fall off the fork I mentioned it to my Neuro. He put me on Gabapentin for it. This has worked very well up until yesterday. Now the tremor is almost constant. I need to call about this tomorrow myself.
Dennis
I had (probably still do have) a lesion in the right cerebellum. For a year or so, I had action tremor, nystagmus, and vertigo.
Action tremor sounds like what you're describing. If I held my hand out straight, with the fingers stretched out, it would shake. Squeezing aerosol cheese on a cracker would cause my hand to shake, and trying to paint a straight line - well, that was out! All my lines had very even tiny little wiggles.