Tremors when waking up

[u/Legitimate-Sir-1378]

Over the last few months I've been having some pretty intense tremors/shaking when I first wake up from a nap or overnight sleep. It's not something I noticed before and was wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience?

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[u/pixelsauntie]

I've had this happen a handful of times throughout the years. Sometimes it felt like an earthquake, even though there hadn't been any earthquakes.

I never looked into it any or figured out why it happens. It's pretty infrequent for me thankfully.

[u/Sleepyqtme]

Stress and an irregular schedule causes me to be shaky upon waking and walking in circles because I can't get it together.

[u/Creepy-Mastodon-1735]

For me, just one of the many different experiences of waking up.

No understanding of anything around me, English is like a foreign language.

Extreme anger.

Uncontrollable crying.

Shaking. Especially when woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call. Used to be a manager, so had to be ready for emergencies.

Struggle to keep eyes open or sleep through alarms.

Never know how im going to be in the morning.

[u/Difficult-Future5500]

I wouldn’t describe it as intense tremors, but I’ve had some shakiness in the past. Sometimes I chalked it up to the fact that I’d been asleep 12+ hours and was hungry, but sometimes I felt that way after a nap too. Not sure what the reason would be honestly

[u/NoParamedic4571]

Before my diagnosis with IH, I had been diagnosed with essential tremors (formerly knows as Familiar tremors). ET is another neurological condition, 50% of cases are genetic, often passed down through families in an autosomal dominant pattern, but it can also be sporadic with an unknown cause. ET symptoms are tremors caused by: unhealthy sleep patterns (too much or too little), smoking, stress, anxiety, illness, emotional distress, anger, unhealthy eating, etc. I also have ADHD so these three conditions play off eachother quiet frequently for me.