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Aug 27, 2014, 07:12 PM
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My hands shake terribly. I cannot fill out forms or sign my name without the pen going off the paper. I cannot hold a teacup and when I get my nails done she can barely get the polish on. When I am in my exercise class, my hands shake bad when using the weights.
Can anyone look at my list of meds and see if any of them could be causing this? Or is it just the combo? I'd like to decrease something and see if it will help. I am on all these meds due to a severe depression...but am feeling better now.
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Aug 27, 2014, 07:14 PM
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well I have been on all of them except Lexapro for an extended period of time and I am very sensitive to meds...I usually get every side effect there is and none of those have made me shake...but I would talk to your doctor about it...I am currently doing Geodon wellbutrin and klonopin and the combo doesn't seem to affect me either..good luck
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Aug 27, 2014, 08:56 PM
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Aug 28, 2014, 10:17 AM
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If the shaking is from anxiety it could be the Welbutrin. If it's just a muscle problem, musle tremors are a rare but possible side-effect of both Lamictal and Geodon.
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#5
Aug 28, 2014, 11:04 AM
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Usually that symptom is caused by anti-psychotics, but you didn't list any. Have you taken them before?
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Aug 28, 2014, 01:57 PM
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Geodon is an antisychotic. Also I got really shaky on a very low dosage of Wellbutrin. So my guess is one of those, both maybe.
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Aug 28, 2014, 06:11 PM
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I'd say geodon---my doc offered me propanolol to counteract it but its just a use as needed kind of thing.
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Aug 28, 2014, 06:49 PM
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Thanks for all the responses. Very helpful.
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Aug 29, 2014, 12:42 AM
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I got an intentional tremor in my hands on Wellbutrin. It was OK if my hands were still and I was doing nothing, but if I tried to do fine work, or turn pages of a book, or similar, my hands would really shake. Decreasing the dose of Wellbutrin helped. Geodon might also be contributing.
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Aug 31, 2014, 09:21 PM
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Geodon gives me the shakes. Not to the extreme you mentioned, but enough to effect my handwriting, ability to eat without food falling off my spoon/fork, spilling when pouring from a gallon into a cup.
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Aug 31, 2014, 10:49 PM
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My vote is for the Geodon, too--but you might have to have your prescriber experiment to see which one or ones are the culprits.
The only med that has given me the "hand shakes" (and they were bad) was Depakote. I have taken all the other drugs you have mentioned with no such issue. It's wild that drugs cause different effects in us. 
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Sep 01, 2014, 12:32 PM
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I take propranolol for migraines and one of the "side effects" is to stop tremors. My hands are unnatually still. I've read that it can be perscribed for tremor.
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Sep 03, 2014, 10:30 AM
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Wellbutrin made me shaky. It was a bad match considering that I already get shaky anxiety.
however, this is all very hard to judge based off only a list of medications -- the best we can do is list off the 'likely' suspects. How long has this been happening and what have your recent med changes been? You're also on a lot of medications, which would make tracking the culprit(s) nearly impossible. However, it's great that you are feeling better!!
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Sep 10, 2014, 11:33 PM
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I was horribly shaky and unsteady on my feet on Welbutrin. It was several months after I quit the med that I finally stopped shaking. It was so bad that I could not write a simple grocery list or sign my name.
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Sep 11, 2014, 01:21 PM
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I believe I read somewhere that wellbutrin can cause tremors. I have also had shaky hands but it seems to be even worse recently while on wellbutrin. And I actually just upped the dose yesterday so I guess well see.
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Sep 11, 2014, 02:30 PM
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