I wake up vibrating

[Michelle]

I know it sounds wierd, but several times over the last couple of years, I have awakened from sleep, feeling like my chest is vibrating.  No pain, no sweating, no faintness, but it scares me.  At first I thought I was imagining it.  Then I thought perhaps I was having some kind of muscle spasm or something.  Now I'm beginning to think it's my heart.

It happened most recently this morning at 5:00 a.m. and I was having a lovely dream about skating around alone in a peaceful setting.  So I don't think it was an anxiety attack.  The vibration is very rapid and regular, but it seems to stop when I become fully awake.  I'm not a medical person, but I felt my wrist for my pulse this morning, just as soon as I became aware that I was having another "episode," and it felt like my pulse was vibrating along with my chest.

I am 45 years old, female, 45 pounds overweight, don't smoke, don't drink.  Don't take any kind of medication for anything.  No allergies.  I'm pretty active; my job involves regularly lifting 30-lb boxes and climbing up and down ladders pretty often. I do drink two cups of coffee every morning.  Could this have anything to do with being pre-menopausal?  

Thanks for your help.

[mmanelia]

I have not had this experience when waking up but when relaxing or going to bed at night.  I have no pain just this humming in my body usually in my chest, but I have had it in other parts of my body.   This happened when I had the Holter Monitor on and it did not show anything.  But it is a very weird feeling.  I am a 62 year old female with minor MVP, heart palpitations and one episode of rapid heartbeat.

[Virginia Perrin]

I have atril-fib and have had since june 1996. I first noticed the vibration about 3 years before atril-fib. One day I started shaking and vibrating. It lasted one week and then stoped. I couldn't sleep and didn't know what was happing to me. When I went into fib in 1996 and had a cardoversion and was back in regular rythum again the vibration remained. I still have it. It has taken over my life and my cardiologist can not find anything that is causing it. so he says its all in my head. Just to hear someone else has this sympton makes me believe I am not going crazy after all. I am 64 and about 15 lbs over weight. I don't drink or smoke and am otherwise healthy.

[Shawn]

I thought I imagined the vibrating or humming until my husband asked me if I was aware that my body was "buzzing".  It usually happens when I'm waking up.  I have cardiomyopathy with some murmurs, PVCs, and the usual.  My doctor told me the vibration may be what they call a "thrill" which is apparently caused by turbulant blood flow through a (damaged?) valve.

[Michelle]

I'm the person who posted the original message.  The suggestion that this may be a sleep disorder is very interesting.  I have no sensation of a weight on my chest, only that my chest is vibrating.  I have no trouble waking up, in fact, I'm a light sleeper and a morning person.  It makes sense that if it were a heart problem, it would continue when I wake up.  But if it is a sensation caused by my brain waking up before my body, does this mean that it's all in my head?  My chest isn't vibrating?  My brain only THINKS my chest and pulse are vibrating?  How could that be?

[Jittery]

i wake up in the mornings feeling very jittery likesomeone is struming me from the inside. i have mvp and this started then and my nervous system is causing it. every morning and sometimes during the day, kinda feels like you have had tons of coffee when i have had none. just gotta live with it i gues at least in my case.

[One more thing]

A whole body vibrating sensation is also a sleep paralysis key symptom, as is the total remission of all symptoms when sitting up from sleep. If it were a cardiac problem it would likely continue! Definately SP, IMHO. You can also try deja.com alt.support.sleep-disorders