benign essential trem
"I've had essential tremor for most of my life.  It has got worse in the last 5 years, so I've taken 7 to 8 different drugs (at different times) to see how well they worked.  Propanolol worked best, but unfortunately brought out my old asthma that I hadn't had since childhood.  Primidone was the only other that seemed to work for me, but was not a cure all.  The problem I had with Primidone was the bad effects it gave you, but I persevered and it went away in 3 to 4 days and has not come back again.  The bottle says to take three 50 mg pills a day.  This is a lower dosage.  But, I just take one 50 mg pill once a day and have on occasion upped it to two when I want to feel more confident in public without embarrassing myself with hand tremors."