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Thank you for the very comforting and encouraging advice crunch. I have really taken up a passion for nursing and pray that it is in my cards to be my professional career one day. I am a very stubborn woman in the fact that I have never let anything stop me from anything that I have really wanted to accomplish in life before this. It's just a very new and scary life change when I throw this ET into the mix. Thank You so much for your encouragement. It really does help!

Hi Thornbird, I have googled "nurses with essential tremor" may times within the past year and this post is always at the top of the search. Your reply is ultimately what gave me the courage to enroll in nursing school to get my RN certifcation and degree. I start in a couple of weeks but I am very nervous because I have also been diagnosed with Essential Tremor and my biggest fear is that I will spend the money on this education and then not be able to apply it in a real job because of my shaking. Within the past year I have been to the doctor several times going through different trials and methods of combating this medicine. My most recent prescription, which I have only been taking for a week now is, primidone (mysoline) at 25 mg/day. In another week, once my body has adjusted to this medicine, I will also begin taking Lexapro (an anti-anxiety pill with a mild anti depressant) which will help with when I am nervous or stressed, which seems to be when this tremor is most prevailant. I am writing to see if you could shed any light on what I may face as a nurse while dealing with this handicap. Do you know of any other nurses with ET? Will a mild shaking be excusable in this field? The medicine that I am on has helped tremendously and while my hands are, for the most part, steady, there is still a bit of shaking going on. Like I said, Im just worried and dont know quite what to expect with my clinical trials as well as a career in the nursing field. Any tips?