Are there any drinks/medications that give you the jitters?

Other than caffeine, if I smoke at certain times of the day (like before I’ve eaten), I am down for the count. Or I suppose in this case, up in the sky flying high.

I also take thyroid meds. Usually I don’t get jittery. However, during a recent bout of bronchitis, the inhaler + thyroid meds made me shakey.

For some reason if I take caffeine + aspirin for a migraine I’m fine. But give me an excedrin, excedrin migraine or an anacin and I can’t control the jitters…I practically hop around.

@WillWorkForChocolate: I’ve been on levothyroxine since I was about 8 and I’ve never gotten the jitters from it… Maybe it’s an interaction with another drug? Do you get your levels checked regularly?

However, aiming an inch long intramuscular needle at my thigh every week gives me the jitters! but i do it anyway cause i’m a beast.
Also, taking too much insulin by accident makes me jittery, morose, stupid, and desirous of doing a face plant into an all you can eat buffet!

My thyroid meds don’t make me jittery… they just barely keep me functioning, if you ask me. I kind of miss the days when I had hyper thyroid!

However, every time I get bronchitis, I end up having to get a nebulizer treatment (like my regular inhaler on freaking steroids), and that makes me jumpy all damn day.

Sudafed-brand makes me nervous and twitchy. I use other decongestants, with same active ingredient, doesn’t bother me.

I tend to avoid coffee for that reason.

Coffee.

I drank a shot of scotch whiskey one time as a teenager, blew my fucking eyebrows off, never again.

to much splenda makes me CRAZY!!!!!!

@ucme: just once? That used to be breakfast for me.

My fith cup of black coffee. The coffee never kicks in until the fith cup so I’m kind stuck with it

My Lithium gives me the shakes at times. But if I have caffeine with it I’m on vibrate for hours.

Prozak made me jitter bad.

My asthma inhaler if I misjudge the need to use it. My asthma is more cough than wheeze, and if I think I have something starting and use the inhaler when it wasn’t an asthma cough I get the shakes pretty bad. I have essential tremor to start with so I don’t need any extra shaking.

Erythromyacin bothers me some. Last time I puked constantly for over 5 hours. Does that qualify?

Don’t know if it counts, but I had an energy drink once, called Red Rave. I only drank like a quarter of it, and I started feeling stabbing and crushing pains in my heart shortly after that. It was minor, but definitely not normal. :/ I drink booze and I’m a smoker, so maybe the energy drink can’t be blamed, but it happened when I was drinking it, so…hear no evil see no evil. I stay away from those. lol

Some are good to the taste, like Guru which is the only one I can think of that tastes good, but Jesus man, what do they even make these with, diesel and liquid tire?? O_o

My husband had a weird reaction to an organic protein berry shake this weekend. When I asked what it had in it, he retreived it from the recycling bin for me to have a look. Well, well, he drank the whole bottle (it was small maybe 12oz) when you were supposed to drink only ½. The reaction (tingling feeling in his heart) was most likely from 120% niacin.

I too have had a reaction to niacin in the past. I felt like I was going to die.