Thread: Shakers

What do you do if you were a prior smoker and your hands shake ? Or your used to doing everything so fast. How do you Hold your Dovo 5/8? I’ll take any Video’s thanks.

Focus. Not on your hands, but on your breathing. Nanna has familial tremors. I helped her find her focus now she is a great shooter and shaves mostly solo, but when she gets nervous on the back of her knees I take the blade. There are meds for tremors, but they are expensive and have many major side effects. Nanna is off the meds and doing well. To help her find focus for shaving I have her strop to the beat of her breaths.

If you have real issues with hands shaking that's the one thing that will remove you from the ranks of straight shavers very fast. If its just a nervous issue temporary thing there are things you can do with breathing and biofeedback or possibly some medications. Do some research and if you can't solve it with conservative approaches a trip to the M.D might be in order.

thank you all very much

I have always had very shaky hands, with no explanation. I've been straight shaving for a month now, and haven't found it to be a problem. My time shaving is now the most relaxing part of my day; and I expect that after the initial jitters pass, it will be for you too.
You will knick yourself-- everybody does. First off, it won't be the bloody massacre that everybody expects it to be. Secondly, if you choose to chalk it up to your shaky hands, you probably won't be straight shaving for very long. However, if you choose to persevere, you'll be having the best/ most relaxing shaves of your life in no time. And who knows, this may be the thing that helps you conquer those shaky hands.

Find your happy place. Slow easy breaths.

Are these symptoms related or separate? Does shaky hands go hand in hand (pun intended) with being an ex-smoker? Breath, go slow, practice with a butter knife or dull razor. And in all seriousness not knowing your age or health condition consult a physician. If it's not that serious I can only imagine that confidence and muscle memory through repetition might be the deciding helpful factor.

Vitamin B6 helps transmit nerve impulses, it was prescribed to me when taking meds to treat exposure to TB

Was the transmission of nerve impulses what caused the shaky hands or was it a lack of the transmission that was then helped by the B6 that cleared up your condition?

Hmm, I quit smoking (cold turkey no less) last September, which at that time was nearly a year since I picked up straight shaving. Can't say that shaking hands was ever a problem, at least for me. Perhaps this is a symptom that goes beyond withdrawls?