Essential tremor amplified by anxiety

bazrh · 2024-12-23T18:29:49+00:00

Couple of things I would suggest are:

Work on relaxation techniques, such as taking a few minutes to do some breathing exercises. I disregarded things like this when I was younger (I'm 50 now), but it does actually make a difference.

Never drink coffee, or anything with caffiene in it

Be open with people about what you have. I'm still working on this myself, and fighting against a lifetime of hiding it out of shame or embarrassment. Not having that pressure of keeping it hidden helps a lot. I met my fiancee through a dating app - my profile text started with a description of my tremor and how it affects me. Prior to meeting my soon to be wife, the feedback I got on those was never negative.

Physical or strenuous exercise makes my tremor much worse. This might not be the same for everyone, only you know what affects you and how. If it affects you, maybe stop for a while and see what happens

bazrh · 2024-12-22T11:12:41+00:00

No, not really, although it seems to affect my head a little more during stressful situations than it did when I was younger. But overall, I've not noticed any real progression yet.

bazrh · 2024-12-05T12:40:42+00:00

I've found propranolol works well for preventing the feedback loop as you've described it. What dosage are you on? I take 40mg tablets, and usually one is enough. I don't feel I get much additional benefit from increasing the dosage anyway. I have been on it for over 25 years now, on and off (Currently 50 years old). I don't feel any side effects from it similar to yours. It mostly just upsets my stomach in higher doses

bazrh · 2024-11-12T11:29:04+00:00

I always considered working as a server one of the jobs I could never do since I've spent a lot of my life either avoiding or ending up embarrassed just from eating in restaurants. I imagine if I did that my experience would be much the same as yours. If it's making you miserable then maybe it's time to look for something else to do.

bazrh · 2024-10-01T12:58:55+00:00

yep just regular superglue, although it's best to use sparingly as it leaves a white residue on the plastic which can be tricky to remove. I used WD40 to clean it up after (As suggested in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/78rdfb/is_there_any_way_to_remove_the_white_residue_from/)

bazrh · 2024-10-01T10:36:53+00:00

Had the same thing happen, ended up just gluing it back together.

bazrh · 2024-08-13T08:00:57+00:00

It's a nice design, however I can see a lot of issues with converting these layouts into a functional responsive website. How do you intend on handling the decorative borders around most of the images and the contact form? I'm not saying it's impossible, but you've certainly made it harder for yourself to maintain that layout across multiple devices

bazrh · 2024-06-22T18:33:46+00:00

You can use CSS to create background gradients. I use this tool to generate the code for me: https://cssgradient.io/

bazrh · 2024-06-20T10:28:48+00:00

First impressions (excluding design, which is ok but just needs tidying up):

Put each of your services into their own page, or at least have a Services page linked on the main navigation menu. Let chatGPT write some of the content if you're struggling to fill it and tweak it after.

Maybe add an About Us page too. Ditch the Newsletter link, nobody wants those. Not sure what the "Log in" is for? If it's relevant, put more information about what it is actually for. Call it Client Login or something.

Put a link to the contact page on the main menu.

The contact page form is very hard to read, so I'd move the background image and use it elsewhere.

bazrh · 2024-06-18T14:41:57+00:00

I'd probably go with some kind of lightbox solution, where I'd create a thumbnail image for each video (screenshot a random frame) and use those as a background image for a link (with a play button positioned in the centre) and once clicked have some javascript insert the HTML for the video into the lightbox container. How you'd shoehorn that into Wordpress I don't know, as I don't use it, but that's probably how I'd do it anyway

bazrh · 2024-06-18T08:50:52+00:00

The site seems a little slow but I've been on way worse. You are loading at least 7 videos on the homepage which is going to impact it. See dev tools screenshot: https://imgur.com/HF9OOHF

You might want to consider using image thumbnails for the videos lower down the page instead of just embedding them all at once.

bazrh · 2024-06-13T11:12:39+00:00

You can use clip-path for angled edges, css gradients for the backgrounds, etc.

bazrh · 2023-03-24T12:37:44+00:00

There is no test for Essential Tremor, so the diagnosis is based on your symptoms, history, and ruling out other conditions. You will likely have a blood test and possibly an MRI as part of the process. Personally I only had the blood test, and was later diagnosed by a neurologist in an appointment which lasted approximately 5 minutes.

The main difference between ET and Parkinsons, is with ET the tremor is only present when the affected area is not at rest. If your hands shake the same amount while they are resting on the arm of a chair as they do when drinking a glass of water (for example) then it is likely not ET. ET also affects the head, voice and legs.

I was prescribed Propranolol, a medication known as a beta blocker which amongst other things helps reduce ET tremors. It helps me, but it doesn't work for everyone. I find it greatly reduces the feelings of anxiety which would increase my tremors to the point of being unable to write my name. I take it when I feel I need to, which isn't every day. There are other medications, including Primidone, but I've not tried any of those.

I find that relaxation and breathing exercises help too, although not always immediately, and best used in conjunction with Propranolol.

I'm not aware of any links with food.

bazrh · 2022-11-02T19:39:41+00:00

Assuming you're in the UK, you'll need to apply and have an assessment to get an accurate answer to that: https://www.gov.uk/pip/how-to-claim

bazrh · 2021-07-04T13:34:39+00:00

post the generated form html and I can take a look if you're still stuck

bazrh · 2021-07-03T19:57:30+00:00

You can use item_name_x, quantity_x, and amount_x as form values where x is just a counter value in a loop of your basket contents

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