I’ve had it my entire life.
Some days are worse than others. For the most part it doesn’t really stop me from doing anything, but man, some days it just gets so frustrating.
Right now it’s acting up and my stupid fingers are bouncing on my keyboard. I hate it. It’s uncomfortable, but also the fat fingers when gaming are real. Like don’t mind me, just blowing a CD on 1 little guy cause my fingers decided to do a little dancy dance.
Also because it’s progressive, it’s now progressed to the point other people can see it. It’s emberassing 
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I get one in my left hand if I lift too much or over work it once in a while, I’m not sure if it’s the same but it’s gotten really shaky when I arch it back.
I usually do stuff with it when it acts up to make myself laugh. Like trying to drink with the hand. It keeps me entertained trying to fight an uncontrollable shaking hand. It’s nothing to be ashamed of you can’t really control it.
But when it interferes with things I totally understand the frustration there. It makes raid rotation really freakin hard to do. XP
Essential tremor (ET), also called benign tremor, familial tremor, and idiopathic tremor, is a medical condition characterized by involuntary rhythmic contractions and relaxations (oscillations or twitching movements) of certain muscle groups in one or more body parts of unknown cause.[6] It is typically symmetrical, and affects the arms, hands, or fingers; but sometimes involves the head, vocal cords, or other body parts.[4] Essential tremor is either an action (intention) tremor—it intensifies when one tries to use the affected muscles during voluntary movements such as eating and writing—or it is a postural tremor, present with sustained muscle tone. This means that it is distinct from a resting tremor, such as that caused by Parkinson’s disease, which is not correlated with movement.
Does Delirium tremens count?
ET is an action tremor, so that very well could be what’s going on with your unruly hand! lol
As Crytome said, it’s usually symmetrical, but not always
I’m no doctor though lmao
Mine usually hangs out in my hands, but moves up in to my head sometimes.
I’m usually not bothered by it, I just shake, it’s a thing I do. But sometimes it really gets to me. Today is one of those days (Obviously cause I’m complaining on the forums about it lol)
It also doesn’t help that, while it’s the most common tremor, it’s not suuuper common. So I don’t really have others to talk to about it. Let alone any “younger” people. I’m 31.
ANYWAY, I’m rambling lol
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It’s so far just my left hand for me. That would probably definitely drive me a bit bonkers if it was twitching like this somewhere else. Though my left eyelid tends to do it sometimes for hours too.
I wish I could say I fall below 31 but Im at 37 xD
God I wish I were back to 31!
It honestly freaked me out a bit at first when this started up but I seen it was as you say it’s likely just ET so when it happens I play a game with trying to drink from my thermos which gets me laughing so much.
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ET runs in my family.
my mom, sister and I all have it to various degrees.
my doctor tried to reduce some of the trembling by augmenting my dose of beta blocker (which I was already taking for a liver issue), because that particular drug was known to have a positive effect on tremors. Sadly, in my case it hasn’t really helped.
I mostly notice it when I eat nachos (trying to hold a chip between my thumb and index) or picking up a full drinking glass.
In all our cases, this is something that developed later in life. I didn’t notice symptoms until I was in my 50s, the same with my sister.
I think it was the same for my mom. hers are a bit worse than my sis and mine.
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That’s the wild thing about ET. From what I’ve been told, it shows up as a kid, or around 40+
It can show up any time, but usually falls in those two categories.
My uncle on my dad’s side had it, and my mom was just diagnosed at 64. Hers just showed up in her left hand like Arashiko lol
I had some good luck with beta blockers to help. But, it looks worse than it feels, so I stopped taking them. Mostly cause I’ve heard that they can stop working after a while, and I want that option later if it becomes a problem. Especially because I’m an artist. I need my hands 
Right now the biggest complaint I have is it’s emberassing. And sometimes have to drink out of a cup with two hands like a toddler lol
The one real benefit to having it since I was a kid, is that I’ve had my entire life to adapt to it.
Some days it drives me up the wall. Don’t get me started on installing my SSD and it’s TINY EVIL LITTLE SCREW OH MY GOD
I can definitely see how it would be unnerving when a tremor shows up later. Hands are supposed to do what we tell them, not vibrate and make us have to two hand a glass of water lmao.
Also 37 isn’t much older than 31 haha. I hit 30 and I swear my knees went " 'aight, we old now" lmaoo