Hey Hannah, I have just come back too though under a new alias. I did have shaky hands occasionally when on Xyrem. Mostly though I think I get it from too much caffeine in my system...like maybe I didn't drink more coffee, but I didn't eat very much breakfast. I then snack on peanut butter ( I am a right out of the jar kinda girl)...which would help whether the shakiness is from caffeine on an empty stomach or from a low blood sugar thing. It has seemed to help.

My Ritalin makes me have shaky hands, and I've lost out on clients because of it. Another reason I had to quit the hair business. I'm still trying to build clientele and it's not a good first impression to drop your sheers and not be able to maneuver a BabyLiss hairdryer. Plus, it slowed my application time down. It's like I have two left hands nowadays.

@paigeturner: I didn't know Xyrem could cause that too. I shake most of the time, it's just more noticeable with the uppers.

Thank you for the replies, and the most obvious thing and I didn't even relise it lol, I was drinking a big bottle of energy drink a day which is full of caffeine, and as the day got later that's when my hands were shaking a lot ,so I have now stopped the energy drinks, put up with the caffeine with draw head aches, and my hands seem fine lol thank you so much

I wanted to ask for clarification - do you mean tremors or jittery shakes like you have Parkinson's or some such? Or do you mean nervous tics and fidgets and the like?

I ask because I shake and vibrate my legs constantly - can only sit still with tremendous effort - a nervous tic aggravated by the butt-ton of stimulants...

But I wanted to know which you meant before I commented further

No it was just the normal hand shake ,its stopped now I've cut out the energy drinks lol so the obvious answer straight in front of my eyes lol

:-)

I had to cut caffeine out of my life entirely about 2 years back - it seems to behave way different than the medical stimulants and I was having terrifically terrible blood pressure issues - caffeine gone and my BP is just a hair above normal now

How long have you had narcolepsy if you don't mind me asking

Simple question, complex answer :-)

Roughly, about 20 years. However, I was finally accurately diagnosed 4 years ago after 6 years of actively trying to find out what the heck was wrong with me, after a decade of symptoms that I had constantly dismissed as being life-issues.,

Eventually it became impossible to ignore and when I started to no longer be able to drive or maintain conversations effectively I really got to work on figuring it all out...