No, it’s not “alien hand”, thank goodness, but it’s upsetting to me. I’m right handed and my bad side is the right side. I don’t have resting tremor; I do have bradykinesia, rigidity, and dystonia, and sometimes action tremor.

I keep dropping things with my left hand. I dropped a pill bottle this morning and my baclofen landed on the floor. I dropped two bottles at work today; luckily, they were empty.

My left hand doesn’t seem weak. The only thing I can think of is that when I drop something I’m also doing something with my right hand. In other words, I’m multitasking on autopilot.

I’m able to hold two large bottles in each hand without a problem, but when I do that I’m focusing on what I’m doing, being careful not to drop them.

It seems that simultaneous activity is problematic unless I focus on what I’m doing and if I go slowly. If I quickly grab things without focusing on the activity, or if I’m distracted, I can’t use both hands at once.

I’m right handed, so my focus is more on my right hand because the major activity is being done with that hand. The left hand is an ‘also ran’, so it makes sense that it’s the left hand that fails.
Right after I drop something, my left hand feels discombobulated, like it's not working at all.

Any of this seem familiar?

~Zucchini