My hands shake and I cannot line it up

Started 19 October 2025 · 17 replies · 149 hearts · read 2.3k times

OmarAmman, JO · 19 October 2025

9 months ago

My hands shake and I cannot line it up — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

CatoAntwerp, BE

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

7me too 8

Ozzy GWalsall, UK

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

NylaNairobi, KE

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

GavinDundee, UK

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

BrackAlnwick, UK

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

8me too 2

TedIpswich, UK

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

GwynforLlanidloes, UK

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

BrodyDunfermline, UK

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

TabbyMargate, UK

#10

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

GaelanInverurie, UK

#11

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

6me too 7

DelythBala, UK

#12

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

OrlaithDonegal, IE

#13

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

OttaviaBologna, IT

#14

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

IslaOban, UK

#15

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#16

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

16me too 3

SableCape Town, ZA

#17

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.