If you are not satisfied with the doctor, seek a second, third, or fourth opinion. It may well be stress, even though she says she doesn't have any. She may be holding it inside and that could cause the shaking. Our minds can make our bodies ill. And as for your wife's back pain, unfortunately the the doctor may be right. I have several things wrong with my back, I cracked several vertebrea, broke my tail bone, and have a congenital birth defect on my spine. I have lived with cronic pain for at least 30 years of my 58 years. Good luck in finding out what is wrong with your daughter. Sometimes doctors don't pick up right away what is wrong with their patients. Good luck.

Thanks for the reply!

As for my wife's back pain, I know the doctor is an fool! We just came back from there 5 min ago. We wanted to confront him, because she talked to the specialist in Toronto yesterday and we discovered several things.

First, he recommended 300mg of codeine to reduce the tylonol 3 by 3000mg to manage the pain. Then there's a bunch of recommendations they suggested and our family doctor did nothing. His policy is no narcotics. So he left her with 30mg codeine and a bunch of tylonol. Every time we go to him, it's always "There's nothing that can be done, just learn to live with it."

As for my daughter, I have a feeling that she's "Pushing it". Now that I'm home, I've had a chance to observe her and I'm not convinced that the "shakes" are real. I left the room, and when I came back she was not shaking until suddenly she noticed that I was there, then the shakes suddenly started again. I did it a couple of times, discretely, and each time was the same. No shakes. Only when she heard me coming.

I believe there is something going on and this is her way of ... getting our attention. I believe we have a good, honest and open relationship and we have talked about many personal issues such as boys, sex and so forth. I believe her when she says she has no issues with boys or sex, right now, so I'm at a loss.

Her blood test came back completely normal.

Is this self induced? Exaggerated? Real, and if so what is it?