Should I pick another career due to my tremor?
Would love constructive, respectful feedback from professionals in the dental field. 🩷
I am young, in college and currently work in cosmetology. I notice my hands shake, so l ditched my initial plan of being a hygienist and went to college for accounting for one year.
I want to switch my path this year back to pre-dental hygiene because I would miss using my hands at work. I also felt my work would be purposeless and I have a lot of interest in dental hygiene. I even shadowed a hygienist and loved it.
However, my tremor is holding me back. I have to avoid certain positions because of excessive shaking. It's hard for me to focus when my hand starts shaking and I make myself even more anxious. I've been in psychiatry for three years, and I've tried a lot of first-option medications. My anxiety is still very bad and it makes my tremor worse. I'm on Prozac and 20 mg Propranolol, but l still feel really shaky every day on the first client that I do. Sometimes, I improve throughout the day and feel much less anxiety but l have a small baseline tremor. I'm trying second-line medication options soon, using a grip trainer, going to start working out again and see a neurologist next month. Part of me thinks my tremor will never go away, but dental hygiene is what I want to do 100%. I just wish I never had this tremor. Is my body just not capable of it?