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Thank you Milo! This is really helpful. I was zonked yesterday, but started reading up on this. I had my regular lithium blood test, together with liver and kidney function tests about 3 months ago, but something could have gone awry since. I'll phone my GP. :hug:

That sounds very alarming. I've had nothing remotely like that. Did you get it investigated at the time, or did you wait to see if it would just go away? Your tremors sound much more dramatic and longer lasting than mine. When mine appear, and are more disruptive, they seem to settle down...

@Trish I've made some notes, but I hadn't thought about how long it lasts. That's important. Thank you!

@rvallee Hmm, maybe I've had silent Covid and this is an after effect. I've not been muggle-ill for years. I have slightly high white blood cells as a side effect of taking lithium, which I think has kept all infections at bay. Maybe a novel Covid prevention strategy... Or not. I'm sorry you...

@Invisible Woman Thanks for the thyroid info. I hadn't thought of that troublesome thing being the cause of this. It can cause so many bizarre symptoms! Gosh, I wish I had the energy to do a repetitive activity! Still too crashed to do anything for more than a couple of minutes. But I...

Thanks so much @NelliePledge I've been taking the same medications, at the same doses for over 12 years. I have wondered if it's possible to develop side effects after such a long time? I've been taking the same generics of them for ages.

I've started getting tremors these last few weeks, and they went from are-they-really-there to undeniable and scaring my kids. Typing this isn't easy, with fingers juddering around the keyboard. I also keep dropping my phone on my face. I have to hold it with both hands and steady it on a...

I sent the video to my 20 year old daughter and she texted back: "OMG it's brilliant! So impressive. Slams f*****g PACE. Harvard doc first up! POW! MPs in parliament! Send it to EVERYONE! Talk about validating! I'm sending it to all my friends!"

Too ill to watch the video, but your concise and succinct summary is excellent! Thank you so much.

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@lunarainbows That's an excellent improvement! Not to feel like you've run round a racetrack when all you've done is sat up or chatted for a minute! Quality of life! :) I understand that pounding in the throat and ears, heart beating out of my chest - I remember it from getting thoroughly out...

@JemPD I am absolutely horrified :jawdrop: Thank heavens you both were wearing those N95 masks. I absolutely love your carer. She sounds like a marvelous person.

A rise of 30 bpm in 10 minutes of standing. Thanks so much for the info. Extremely useful. And the warning! Will NOT try this at home! It's strange to me I'm never aware of my pulse at all. I thought people who had tachycardia felt it as palpitations. I guess mine is a weaker beat or...

I don't have a blood pressure monitor, but I have bad problems standing up for long, so I just took my heart rate lying down and it was my usual 96 bpm (I'm 45 and slim, if that makes any difference). I stood up and took it again. 98 bpm. Stood still for 5 minutes. Horrible pain in my feet...

@alktipping oooh shoulder impingement can be nasty. I have bursitis in my right shoulder that flares up all the time and I get tingly sensations, as well as pain, in that arm from that. @Milo a pinched nerve somewhere may well cause it :emoji_thinking: It's totally symmetrical. Hmmm. Unless it...

@Invisible Woman Well of course it doesn't happen when you see a doctor :woot: I hope my feet, especially just my toes, don't join in with it. @alktipping does it come and go, or is it, and I hope it isn't, constant? I think I prefer that it's all my fingers, and not just the little one...

Oh, ANOTHER thing to ruin sleep. Yeah. Nice. The list is long. It's just annoying. I'm not worried. Ugh, stuff seeing the GP. Can't be bothered. Too crashed to waste the energy unless my fingers are actually falling off. I'm not looking for a reason for it. Just wondered if it was just me...

When I use my hands, not on the phone for scrolling or typing, but for brushing my teeth, preparing food, that kind of thing, my fingertips tingle after. Sometimes it's down to the first joint on some fingers. They don't change colour. Sometimes it starts during the activity, if I'm doing it...

I'm in a bad crash right now, and I find the difference between those of us who DO have appalling sleep-related exhaustion in addition to muscular and cognitive exhaustion, very interesting. My sleep is dreadful anyway, so I'm always chronically sleep deprived - a fair few of us have serious...

@Arnie Pye :woot: And :hug: I totally forgot about it. Of course. Brain drain. Thanks for picking it up again. Very diligent of you :thumbsup: I'll look it over again and see if it warrants the expense... I find these days that few things do. I use the lemon flavoured Jarrow sublingual...