Shaking should i see anyone?

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I keep having eriods where my arms and legs shake. Its usually after or during stressful sittuations but i am not particularly stressed when i shake.

As an example i woke up from surgery shaking which happened for about an hour.

Ssorry the shaking stopped me typing ropperly.

My sister gets this and was told by gp its the stress and put her on antidepressants. I'm not convinced. I would suggest seeing your own gp.

Does she find the ADs helpful?

It hasn't stopped these episodes but did slow down the frequency of them.

Thanks
I do not usually feel anxious when these episodes happen, but notice its in more stressful times. However, i wondered if stress could be a factor as had it with infections.

I now feel shivery and feverish, so am wondering if an infection.

If its happening only with infections or times of medical issues then maybe its your body response to being unwell or run down.

It’s not uncommon to wake up with ‘the shakes’ after surgery & doesn’t mean anything’s necessarily wrong.

Why do people wake shaking after surgery?

While it resolved eventually they csalled the aneasthitist back in in recovery and a dr on the ward.

It isn’t terribly well understood. Some of it is due to being cold (just like normal shivering), but generally we’re better at preventing that these days. Post-op shakes are more likely if someone has pain (which is part of the reason there’s always pain relief prescribed for the recovery room). It also seems likely that general anaesthetics may interfere with normal inhibitory mechanisms/alter the thresholds at which shivering starts. You can also get the shakes with a good working spinal or epidural anaesthetic though so it’s not just GAs interfering with the brain that causes it.

There are some drugs which are sometimes used to treat shivering that’s not due to hypothermia post-op, but none of them are terribly ‘nice’ drugs and they all come with significant side effects so they’re best avoided if possible. Just because it happens once doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll happen again with future anaesthetics.

Hope that helps. (DOI:am an anaesthetist).

This obviously relates specifically to post-op shivering, and may not be relevant to all the symptoms you’re describing OP so as ever, if you’re worried, you should see your GP.

Thanks for the explaination. I think some of these factors may be generally relevant, particularly pain.

As you mentioned pain, are you on strong painkillers? Shaking can be a side effect of these and also of many anti-depressants (mostly SSRI/SNRI types).

I developed shaking due to a combination of opiates and SSRIs. I stopped the SSRIs and it went away, but now 4 years later it's back. I've seen a neurologist and he says it could be medication related or it could be essential tremor, which is basically just a tremor with no known cause. He checked me for other neuro symptoms and I didn't have any. It's inconvenient but not dangerous. There are medications that can help - beta blockers are often first-line treatment, or seizure meds such as pregabalin or gabapentin. Could be worth asking your GP about it if it continues.