Shivering

This morning at work I was standing talking with someone and my arm started shaking so much it was like I was shivering in the cold. It's the first time that happened without any assignable cause.

I'm finding that if I'm cold, my right arm will shiver much more and much sooner than my left arm. If I'm exerting myself, it's the same sort of thing, but today was the first time my arm shook like that with no apparent cause.

New sensation

Had a "new sensation" last night.

Anyway, the sensation was actually a feeling of my arm being "normal". I could actually feel something like the waking up after your arm has been asleep (without the pins and needles feeling). Still today, my arm has that warm kind of feeling - even though the shaking is not gone.

Waking Up

I just recently noticed that I'm shaking (arm and leg) some mornings even right away when I get up.

Status update

Things I notice;

• I have switched hands using the computer mouse. I now use it with my left hand, as my right isn't precise enough
• When I eat, I like to lift up the plate or bowl so that my hand doesn't have to travel so far. I very often shake when eating, but I'm unwilling to start eating with my left hand
• My hand and foot feel like they have a tendency to curl
• My right arm doesn't swing when I walk
• My right arm shakes involuntarily when I yawn (, etc.)
• things I do with both hands really highlight the difference; putting on deodorant under my left arm is very difficult compared to under my right arm - my right arm just doesn't respond the way I want it to
• I'm not confident when I carry something in both hands, especially drinks as I feel like I'm going to spill the one in my right hand
• I like to have my left hand free to grab the handrail when I go down stairs

I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting. I'll post as I remember.

Caught

One of the men at Bible Study noticed. He saw that I don't move my right arm very well, and that it shakes.
He's the first person to notice.

on to the Next Level

The neurologist in Windsor saw me for a second time after getting the results of the CT scan. The results were normal.
I have an appointment in London at the Movement Disorders Clinic. It's not until April 17, 2009.

Neurologist

I saw a neurologist in Windsor. He had me walk and point, etc. He didn't think that I have Parkinsons' (which is what I was worrying it was), since my symptoms were not consistent with it.

Parkinsons' patients have a tremor at rest. He described mine as an intentional tremor, I shake when I'm trying to do something requiring fine motor skills.

He sent me for a CT scan, just to start the diagnosis.

The following weekend, I was talking with my parents who mentioned my uncle also shakes.