emlica
23-01-14, 11:56
Hiya, just wondering - if you have 'the shakes' to any degree as a symptom of your anxiety, does it affect one side more than the other?
Although I have a kind of vague 'all over' shaky feeling, it's definitely more pronounced in my left hand. It's fine when it's at rest, and I really only notice it when my arm is leaning on something and my hand is 'in the air' but I'm keeping it still, especially if I'm holding something or clenching my fist. Wondering if it is just 'anxious' shaking or something else. Not worried too much about anything really serious (I admit I had a mild 'OMG one sided shaking Parkinson's aaaargh' but my rational brain knows I am improbably young - 30 - for that, and in any case Parkinson's tremor is a resting tremor, which is a different beast entirely, and I have zero other symptoms), but wondering if it might be a posture thing or something, trapped nerve? Or maybe it's not that unusual for anxious tremors to affect one side more than the other. I'm right handed so maybe it's just that my left hand is a bit more naturally feeble and therefore affected more?
Although I have a kind of vague 'all over' shaky feeling, it's definitely more pronounced in my left hand. It's fine when it's at rest, and I really only notice it when my arm is leaning on something and my hand is 'in the air' but I'm keeping it still, especially if I'm holding something or clenching my fist. Wondering if it is just 'anxious' shaking or something else. Not worried too much about anything really serious (I admit I had a mild 'OMG one sided shaking Parkinson's aaaargh' but my rational brain knows I am improbably young - 30 - for that, and in any case Parkinson's tremor is a resting tremor, which is a different beast entirely, and I have zero other symptoms), but wondering if it might be a posture thing or something, trapped nerve? Or maybe it's not that unusual for anxious tremors to affect one side more than the other. I'm right handed so maybe it's just that my left hand is a bit more naturally feeble and therefore affected more?