penn, I have the same problem too. My left arm twitches when I get nervous/excited/etc. Its really bad, if someone asks me to help them carry something that involves 2 hands I have to say no otherwise my arm will just throw it.
I also get it in my abdomen. If I go out to a bar and there are a lot of people my abdomen contracts and hunches me over. Needlessly to say I make a scene and people think I'm going to have a seizure.
When I was very young, 6,7,8? I saw a doctor and he said he didn't know what to do except give me ridlelin, which of course my mom said no.
Again when I was about 20 and couldn't take it anymore I saw a doctor who referred me to a neurologist, who put me on 3 different kinds of drugs, klonopin, tryleptal and something else. None worked so he said go see a movement specialist. I did and all he said was said I can give you xanax.
The Xanax does kinda work. It helps, but doesn't get rid of it completely and I feel dopey. Plus who knows the long term side affects for something that only works a very little bit.
What does work completely, 100%, is getting drunk. Again, not a solution, but if I wasn't able to get drunk before going out to bars/parties I wouldn't be able to go.
That being said, you can imagine what its like when I had to go to work and give a presentation or just even sit in a meeting. I feel like an fool, sitting there shaking, not paying attention to whats going on because I'm preoccupied twitching like a mad man.
I'm not an anxious person or depressed or anything. I feel great. Its just when I walk into a room of people or something exciting happens or anything emotional like that my brain goes nuts and thinks it being attacked or something.
So, thats my story, I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm looking for answers. If anyone has any tips/help/someone that can help me out. Let me know, I'll be eternally grateful.
