I have tremors. They are called familiar or intentional tremors. They occur when I try to do something deliberate like drink a cup of coffee, eat, use the computer mouse to play solitaire. Well the doctor gave me medication that didn’t seem to help much and I couldn’t drink a cup of coffee with my right hand and I couldn’t play solitaire without holding my right hand down with the left one. When Theresa came up on 1/19 I decided to stop drinking diet soda and drink regular soda. Within two weeks I could hold a cup in my right hand and play solitaire again.
I am a home health aide and it can be embarrassing when I shake worse than the people I am caring for. A couple of weeks ago I was caring for a 43 year old woman recovering from surgery and had to put a band aid on her and she noticed the slight tremor and asked me if I had familiar tremors and I said yes. She said she did too. Then I told her about the NutraSweet and she was amazed because she was drinking a two liter of Diet Coke a day and then quit soda altogether and noticed that her tremors had gotten better.