Internal tremor

[Rose12345]

Hello all

I had experienced internal tumor since month

I saw 2 GP and they refere to anxiety

Does anyone one know if anxiety could cause this unpleasant feeling?

And what about essential tremor

[alexask]

Is it essential tremor or something else? Have you got any other parkinson's symptoms? I had this and Mannitol resolved it for about a year. Now, however the tremor is coming back.

[Toogood in reply to alexask]

How much mannitol did you take daily please

[alexask in reply to Toogood]

I take a teaspoon in coffee in the morning, with coconut oil. I may also take some around lunchtime, but I tend not to. I had a massive day of exercise yesterday, including 40 minutes intense cardio and walking for ages carrying massive bags. Also I ate very low carb that day (eggs, kippers, some peanuts and a salad). Tremor was much reduced overnight.

[M-o-ggy]

Hi there. There are times when my tremor is not apparent. If I am anxious or nervous about anything it reappears. It also reappears when I am sat down for a while.

[ParlePark in reply to M-o-ggy]

I have as well. Could be good all day and anxious about anything and tremors start sometimes internal sometimes external. Just starting mucuna and hoping for some relief.

[MehmetKutlu]

Excuse me, but do you mean you're feeling tremor in your torso ?

[caitilin]

I started with what I thought was restless legs. It lasted for about ayear, then it spread to arms and torso. I finally saw a neurologist because the tremors interrupted my sleep; sometimes I couldn't sleep for 3-4 days in a row. I was diagnosed with Parkinsons (I also had visable resting tremor) I was given Sinemet. I no longer have either type of tremor.

cathy in Wisconson

[rideabike]

Initially I had a very mild head tremor. Later it became internal in my upper trunk and the shaking was stronger. One night it lasted most of the night so I became suspicious that it was more than ET as previously suggested by a neurologist. I slurred my words sometimes and my face became stiffer and I still have that. I wake now with internal tremor in my chest 1st then neck/head tremor begins, almost every morning and after a restful sleep so not related to anxiety at that time. Sometimes my head shakes just as I start to rest before sleep and that is not typical of ET or dystonia.

Mucuna Pruriens is helping the anxiety and shaking because I feel less tightness in the neck while on it as my muscles relax more and even digestive muscles work better. When it wears off I sure feel the tightness come back to my neck and trunk and sometimes all over.

I doubt that internal tremor is just due to anxiety alone. I always felt it was a symptom of PD on it's own and not the cause of the internal tremor. Many articles support that. Doctors like to excuse so many things as anxiety issues. Saves them the trouble of looking into it further.

[pad10]

I had that happen twice about 8 months ago. I was under a lot of stress and was fearful. It felt like my internal organs were all jiggling or vibrating inside of me. It was very disturbing and added to my anxiety. Fortunately after some time I recognized it was because of my anxious state. I proceeded to calm myself down and it stopped. It started again a day or so later but now I knew what to do. It hasn’t come back since then. I highly recommend a book called “FEELING GOOD” by Dr Burns. He uses CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) to help you deal with anxious and other dysfunctional thinking. I can help depression also. Its a classic and really works.

[lempa_nik]

Hi Rose12345,

"Does anyone one know if anxiety could cause this unpleasant feeling?"

it seems that you are best positioned to answer your own question: introspect and decide whether the internal tremors are, or are not, fairly steady and independent of your anxious emotions. For example, my external, resting tremors (from PD) can be triggered by an anxious thought/feeling. But, when off meds, my tremors are constantly ongoing and persist even when i am in a pleasant, relaxed frame of mind. So, it's obvious the great bulk of my tremors are not caused by anxiety (a state of mind) but are physiological.

"Internal tremor is associated with anxiety in 64% of patients (p < 0.0001)."

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/877...

As they say, "correlation does not prove causation." We can explain the big association in the above quote as follows: a) Tremors may cause anxiety, and/or b) the same disease that causes those tremors may also cause anxiety. In this hypothetical case, the answer to your question would be "no, anxiety does not cause internal tremor."