Uncontrollable shaking

[slykornchck]

Hello,

I am new to this forum. I am not sure where to post this as I do not know what I have. Around 9/26 I had a strange attack. I wasn't doing anything strenuous or stressful, but I felt like I was having difficulty inhaling and catching my breath. I immediatley got up and started walking around, only to find that my legs had begun to shake so bad that my legs had gone weak and I was having difficulty walking. I also felt like my mouth was very dry and that  I needed to use the restroom and was burping and passing gas a lot. After a few minutes of trying to walk, I regained my normal state, walked outside for fresh air, calmed down and had some fruit. Later on that night, I experienced something similar. I immediatley went to the ER. Unfortunately for me, by the time I got there the episode had stopped. The doctor who saw me, checked me out and said I had hyperventilated and had an anxiety attack. I was relieved it was not serious. A few days later I had ANOTHER attack. Same problems, only I had noticed my bowel movemtents had become runny. So i called my doctor for an appointment. The morning before my appointment, I had another attack, only more severe. It felt like if I stopped moving I would die. All of my vital signs came back normal at the doctors that day. My doctor checked me out and said she wanted to do a blood test for my thyroid because I also had a goiter. So she did and the results came back that I did have high levels in my bloodstream for hyperthyroidism.I immediatley cut caffeine out of my diet, thinking this may help me. The next week I went for my scans of my thyroid and didnt have any major issues at all for a couple of days, no shaking, weakness, nothing. I had started experiencing little aches all over my body though. Never dehabilitating or severe, just an ache on my shoulder blade here and an arm pain there. The arm pain has been consistent ever since. It feels almost like carpal tunnel.   I had an appointment to meet with my PCP on october 17th and an endocrinologist on the 18th. That sunday and monday (the 15th and 16th) I began to shake again, although this time it was just the uncontrollable  shaking. I went to my PCP the next day and she said my scans came back normal so she was interested to see what the endo would say.  My endo said that the scans came back normal but he would do a second blood test anyway to check my levels. He also said I was slightly tachycardic and I told him about the shaking fits. He then prescribed me some propranolol (20MGs twice a day), calling my shaking fits "tremors". These meds seemed to work for about two weeks or so. Just this past sunday the shaking fits started again. They mainly happen at night now and the shaking starts in my legs and then my whole body begins to shake afterwards. My bowel movements have gone back to normal though and my heart rate seems to stay the same.  Sometimes it lasts a couple hours, other times 20 minutes or so. My hands and feet get extremely cold when this happens. I curl up under a blanket and that seems to help. If I just lay under a blanket and relax I feel much better. I can't understand what is wrong with me. I don't have
headaches or dizziness, or anything but I feel "off". People say you know your body and know when somethings wrong. Well something is wrong with me. I have googled everything from "anxiety" to "epilepsy" to "brain tumors". I have another appointment with my endo on the 15th of this month to check my thyroid again. If its not my thyroid causing this, then what is it? Its disheartening shaking for no apparent reason. Am I having a seizure? Do I have an infection somewhere? Is it possible that I have poor circulation from the meds?  I normally don't post in forums, but
I'm really scared. Any insight would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance to anyone who reads this,
Joanna

[VillaYouth]

I am just (hopefully) in the last few days of a very nasty flu virus but yesterday early evening I started shaking uncontrollably and my teeth started chattering. After a while it subsided but left me feeling worn out. Again this evening the same thing happened and when my teeth started chattering it was a whole lot worse. So much so that my jaw bone was extremely painful. I had the heating on in the house but my spine became extremely cold. Any ideas???

[dellboy24]

I had a massive heart attack in august 2005 my heart stopped twice since then i have had lots of other problems i have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and the power to my legs has gone i also thought that i might have multiple sclerosis but that has been ruled out but since may last year i have started to get this uncontrolabe shaking along with dizziness blurred vision and severe insomnia i also get a lot of pins and needles in my hands and face i feel like i am going out of my mind i am 55 years old and wonder if i will reach 56 so yes it is scary but looking at this thread i am not alone good luck from dell

[stjamandy]

my father has been experiencing what you have nearly all been experiencing. He has been falling over as his legs just give way and so do his arms. some days he has no problems then other days he shakes just like jelly. we have noticed this when he goes to stand up. When he is sitting there is no problem. I think its a confidence thing, the doctors have no idea. any suggestions?

[mykidzmomma]

You and the other women should look up the symptoms associated with Parital Seizures!  My mother started having these when she was in her late 40's. .... just out of the blue for no real apparent reason!  Blood work was fine, ct scan was fine, all seemed normal, but she continued to have these episodes.  She felt like she was going crazy!  Undoubtedly these are like really more common than we realized.  You are fully alert while they happen, you can sometimes even feel them coming on!  

[nervousedude]

iv just come across this its very uncomfortable if i burp i feel a little bit better along with gas. i get nausea a hot sweat to a cold and can not stop shaking for the life of me. also my heart beat is rapid. iv only experienced this one other time and it happened when i ate uncooked chicken. this day i ate half a sub/ 4 spicy chicken sandwiches/water/and an amp energy drink. it also feels like theirs a lot of pressure on my left side under my heart... its so hard to lay down and try to sleep that i just end up sweating even more along with shaking. and get back up. one thing i do find use-full if anyone else is experiences those same symptoms is to 1. SIT UP/2.Breath in slowly with your eyes closed/3. breath out and count 1 breath. go all the way up to 10. listen to some relaxing music and do your best to breath normal.  

[Barbiehf01]

I recently turned 13 years old.I'm a girl. I was making a YouTube video like a few minutes ago... I got up from the chair and just stood there for a few seconds because my legs started shaking like it scared me.. They were shaking like it was so weird! I looked it up on google and found this. My hands and feet get cold sometime but like my whole body exept for my feet and hands are warm... It's weird. I also tend to shake but it's mostly my hands. I think it may be genetic because my mom and grandparents shake. But I don't know about my legs. I also sometimes had like I was in the car and I don't know I felt like I was out of air like claustrophobia maybe? I had to get fresh air and drink water and calm down. It really scares me and I just told my mom about my legs and she said to go to sleep because my bedtime is up. I was scared also because I though like I had dystonia and it's like starting or something like that because I saw that the girl that got a flu shot got that. And I probably mentalized that. I really hope It was because I was like nervous. I was also making a "dance" music video even though I can't dance. I had to like bend down because the camara was too low and that forced my legs like I got tired... I am really really scared!! And now it is very hot even though it's oct 30 and it's 11:01pm and it's 56 F . I'm scared. Please Tell me if there's something wrong with me!!!