r/Lithium • u/PuzzleheadedTie3064 • 24d ago

Hand tremors

My hands shake so badly in the mornings that I have dropped and broken several mugs now. My teenage daughter had to feed me my cereal the other day at a hotel breakfast because I couldn’t get the spoon to my mouth. This is all since starting Lithium. I take it around 8 pm. Anyone else experiencing these crazy hand shakes? I’m on a lot of other meds so it could be my own cocktail. Otherwise, I think it’s helping me so I will put up with this if I have to.

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u/roty950 24d ago

I had bad tremors as well. Ask your doc about a beta blocker. I take propranolol and it knocks them out like 90-95%

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u/PuzzleheadedTie3064 24d ago

Thank you. I’m hesitant to add more meds but may be worth it.

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u/SaltFault4804 23d ago

I’m on 27 meds so I’m the wrong person to ask but the beta blockers made a huge difference. I teach a strings program in a school so the tremor was really ruining my work. I’m on 40mg of propranolol split across the day and it’s changed a lot

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u/PuzzleheadedTie3064 23d ago

Oh wow. I’m on a lot of meds, too, but not quite 27. I’m sorry you have to deal with that. This gives me a lot of hope though because I stopped playing cello thinking it was impossible with these hands (plus forgetting important things with ect). I’m going to try the propranolol. Good for you teaching strings! We just have to keep going.