Why are my hands shaking and I feel anxious?

Hand tremors and palpitations are relatively common problems. Of course, they also have a great impact on human health. If they are serious, they will also affect a person's mental state, causing certain impacts on a person's daily life and normal work. Therefore, when symptoms such as trembling hands and palpitations appear, it is important to find out the cause and seek treatment in a timely manner. Below, we will introduce in detail the causes, symptoms and treatments of hand tremors and palpitations.

1. Causes of panic and trembling

Palpitation is a common clinical symptom. Simple palpitation is often seen in patients with arrhythmia.

Healthy people may often experience palpitations when they are emotionally unstable, mentally stressed, frightened, exercising, doing heavy physical labor, smoking heavily, drinking excessively, or drinking strong tea. The causes of pathological palpitations include heart disease, hyperthyroidism, fever, severe anemia, acute bleeding, etc. In addition, patients with neurasthenia and cardiac neurosis often experience palpitations.

2. Specific symptoms of palpitations and tremors

1. Young or middle-aged people often feel anxious, tremble, sweat, lose temper, get hungry easily and eat a lot without any reason, but lose weight obviously and are afraid of heat. This often indicates that they may have hyperthyroidism, and the symptoms are all caused by increased basal metabolism.

2. If the palpitations are accompanied by decreased urine volume and edema in both lower limbs, and in severe cases the edema may spread throughout the body, and you cannot lie flat at night and feel shortness of breath when lying down, and often feel bloating and pain in the lower abdomen and right upper abdomen, and have loss of appetite, this may be a sign of heart failure.

3. Often feel anxious, accompanied by heart pain, dizziness, insomnia at night, nightmares, forgetfulness, etc. If the blood pressure is measured and found to be normal, it may be caused by neurasthenia or autonomic nervous system dysfunction.

4. Women who often feel palpitations, chest tightness, body aches, weakness, pale complexion, and pale conjunctiva should consider whether it is caused by anemia. A history of menorrhagia, hemorrhoidal bleeding, hookworm disease, long-term malnutrition, etc., would further support this diagnosis.

5. If children or young people have suffered from influenza, high fever, etc. in recent weeks, they often experience palpitations, chest tightness, and weakness after recovering for a period of time. At this time, you should consider whether you have myocarditis (viral myocarditis is more common) and should go to the hospital for electrocardiogram and other examinations in time.

6. Normal people may also experience palpitations due to increased heart rate after strenuous physical activity or mental excitement, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs such as ephedrine, caffeine, and adrenaline.

3. What should I do if I feel anxious and my hands are shaking?

1. Neiguan point is located in the middle of the forearm, 2 inches above the transverse wrist crease. Neiguan is a commonly used specific acupoint and also one of the important acupoints for strengthening the whole body. It can calm the mind and soothe the nerves, relieve numbness and depression, expand the chest and regulate qi, expand the lungs and relieve asthma, relieve acute and acute pain, reduce adverse reactions and stop vomiting, regulate yin and yang, qi and blood, and dredge the meridians. In daily health care, you can press it frequently, which can protect the heart, calm the mind, regulate qi and relieve pain. It can also treat motion sickness, seasickness, etc. It is also effective for pregnancy reactions such as nausea and vomiting in the first 3 months of pregnancy.

2. When palpitations occur, take a deep breath and hold your breath for 1-2 seconds, then exhale slowly to slow down your heartbeat.

3. Stimulate the throat, produce gagging reaction, and also slow down the heart rate.

4. For some patients, simple emotional control and psychological suggestion are ineffective, and panic still occurs frequently. Such patients with palpitations need medication to control their symptoms properly. When choosing medications, they should consult relevant experts and avoid taking medications indiscriminately.

5. Troubles like panic are usually buried very early and are related to personal character, growth environment and personal experience. In daily life, you should be more sensitive, suspicious and demanding perfection. As for the symptoms themselves, just do nothing, let nature take its course, and face them with an accepting attitude. What we can do is to correct the qualities that need to be corrected, such as certain personality traits, ways of thinking, ideas, and living habits, and cultivate the concentration, awareness, and equality that need to be cultivated. In this way, the so-called symptoms will naturally disappear. If we focus on the surface of the symptoms, it is equivalent to forcing things to grow, and the more we pull, the more trouble we will have.

6. Generally, no special treatment is required for palpitations caused by non-pathological factors. As long as there is targeted control and avoidance in daily life, it can be effectively relieved.

7. Pay attention to maintaining an optimistic attitude, avoid emotional ups and downs, try to eliminate stressful factors and relax.

8. Maintain a regular life, ensure adequate sleep, quit smoking and drinking, and eat less spicy and stimulating foods.

9. For palpitations caused by coronary heart disease, hypertension and other diseases, you must go to a regular hospital for a comprehensive diagnosis in time, use medications reasonably under the doctor's guidance, make more adjustments in daily life, and take reasonable precautions.