I have Benign Essential Tremor; pretty severe. I cannot write, nor hold open liquids. I use spoons for everything. I started on Inderal LA 60, back in 1989. They no longer make the time release capsules; so I am now on 60 mgs capsules (1 AM, 1 PM), with a 30 mgs tablet to take as boosters, when needed. This treatment doesn't help with handwriting, but it does keep the tremors less noticeable. Some days, you cannot tell at all. Inderal has been a Godsend...I highly recommend asking your doc if it's right for you...just be careful, because Inderal slows the Heartrate and lowers Blood Pressure; thus controlling the tremors. Make sure you start slow with the Inderal, and work up 10 mgs at a time. (Dosages start at 10 mgs.) Good Luck...Julie in NC

armchrqb. Where you ever ona lower dosage of Inderal than 120/day? My sysmptoms don't sound anywhere near as severe as your's, but I've been on 60mg/day & have started feeling some shaking again. Do you ever feel like your shaking overall body? Not only will my hands be shaky (not good I'm a photographer by trade), but my whole upper body feels sort of like it vibrating sometimes. Really really annoying!

I've been taking inderal since I was around 12 or so. Inderal has been extremely helpful for me. Without it, I have trouble holding glasses of water, playing guitar, writing etc.. But yes, I'm on 40mg once per day and would be lost without it I think. Best of luck man.

I take the GENERIC of Inderal, which is Propranolol. Propranolol also regulates the heart beat, which I also need, since my heartbeat is very irregular, so I'm killing two birds with one stone, so to speak. I do take quite a large dose of Propranolol each day....
which is five 40mg tablets every day.....two, morning...two
at noon and one at dinner time.
It seems to keep the tremor at a reasonable pace......even though it's slowly getting worse, again. The ONE thing I worry about, with Propranolol is that if you stop taking it all at one time, it's AWFUL! I ran out ONE time.....and my heart went wild. I thought it was going to come right out of my chest. I had to call and get the pharmacist to give me enough to last until I got my prescription in the mail. I spoke to the doctor about it, and she still wanted me to take it, since it was good for the tremor, and VERY good to regulate my heartbeat. So, I just make CERTAIN that I have enough, so that I don't run out. I hope I helped a little bit. SK77

I agree, maybe he has more then one profile because someone called hellraiser3 left a nasty comment on someone's thread saying the guy looks like a dork. Please ban these hellraiser profiles.

I have to agree I am shocked to see what the things this person has said, espically on Shootingstar's hugbook...it's really disgusting. I pity this person, he must be so hurt and empty inside.

hold on is someone copying my name because its not me im a woman oh god dont get us counfiused plz

The nasty comments last night were by Hellraiser2. Please do not confuse his comments with this lovely lady.

ty id realy hate to leave dailystreght becose of a mixe up

no, no not you Hellraiser but someone has it under Hellraiser2 and possibly 3.

not you hellraiser ! I meant hellraiser 2 and hellraiser 3 it's them leaving nasty comments not you!

I think Hellraiser3 came on to attack Hellraiser2. The third one was not leaving nasty comments.

hellraiser 3 left a comment on the "Has anyone ever" thread, look at it and send a hug to the poster, he doesn't need idiots telling him he looks like a dork.

where wer this comments put

Alot of them were deleted, but the nastiness was on shootingstars hug page.