Inner tremor

[Theodora70]

Hello.
I'm a 37 year old woman and I've got a very strange symptom now.
I've had a very stressful period in my life for the last few years and I became quite ill 2 years ago with symptoms such as extreme fatigue, severe sleep-disturbances and dizziness. I experienced to get better with some relapses in between last year but seemed to get worse for each relapse. In october last year I got a virus infection(cold) and after that something very strange happened. Suddenly I became intolerant to (sleeping)medications(everything from phenergan to seroquel to nozinan made me extremely dizzy) and a new symptom emerged: It started one night in bed when I noticed a very subtle "inner" trembling in my thighs. It felt like there was a small earth quake(same feeling). The following weeks the "inner" shivering got worse probably due to lack of sleep. The last month has been awful. I can't leave the house because I'm too dizzy all the time and have a rather mean tremor all over in my body which also tends to move from my legs to my arms and then my back or all at the same time. It is possible to observe the tremor if I hold a piece of paper or a glass of water in my hand. You can see the piece of paper is "trembling". And I have also noticed that my muscles feels like I have been working out for several hours and they ache in the same way and are contracted all the time. It seems to me that the dizziness and the strange shivering/inner tremor is linked; when I've been doing something(ex.made supper or just been sitting for some time) the tremor worsens and I get extremely dizzy and sometimes my head feels like it is about to explode and I always cough quite a lot at the same time. I have this theory that when the body is really stressed the respiration muscles contract and generate the urge to cough.

Do you have any idea of what is going on with me? I suspect ME/CFS. Could it be too much adrenaline/stress hormones causing the symptoms of tremor and dizziness?

I would be most grateful for your opinion.

Thank you.

[Theodora70]

Hello again og tank you for responding to my question.
I was afraid that the tremors might be parkinsonian, but a doctor did an easy test on me and ruled it out.  I do not fall forward when I walk but I feel very dizzy and somewhat pre-syncop-ish...but I never faint.
As I write this the tremors are gone...for the moment...strangely enough.
I forgot to mention that after the virus-infection my heart started to race. I normally have about 60/min at rest but now on a good day it seldom drops below 70(at rest).
So my main symptoms are fast heart-rate, dizziness and tremor(which isn't obvious to other people but it feels like it). Typical stress-symptoms. But the problem is that it is autonomous and lives it's own life and makes me even more stressed.

It seems not like a coincidence that there was a significant change in my condition just after the virus-infection. Could it be a immunological-nevrological stress-response from an already stressed immun/nevro system?

I was tested for nevrological dysfunction a month ago where I had to stand on one foot with my eyes closed etc and I didn't fail the test.

Well, this isn't easy for you to find an answer to, but thank you so much anyway:)

I will se an Neurologist as soon as possible.

Kind regards

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hello.

Is the tremor always there? I feel this could be due to Parkinson's disease. Do you have problems walking or balancing also ?

Has your Neurologist given any ideas on this ? Apart from your other symptoms, I suspect the tremors may be parkinsonian. Please try to get it ruled out by your Neurologist.

Regards