Uncontrollable yawning and stretching

[Quixotic1]

Now it's my turn.  I sleep in a recliner, which keeps me from moving much at all for the 12 hours I sleep.  So, I do naturally stretch, especially my legs, in the morning.  But, this morning, I awakened earlier than usual (had to get up and go get my poor little boobitas squished - I want to see mandatory Man-O-Grams!).

But, I digress.  Every time I moved I had an uncontrollable full body stretch - the kind that you usually do once or twice, straight out with arms above your head, and that feels so good in the morning..  Each time it was accompanied by a yawn.  I usually yawn with my mouth open, but these caused my teeth to clench.  I did this maybe 2 dozen times.  It stopped when I got up.  This was very weird.  I have never heard of such a thing.  I don't think it is a side effect of the Tegretol.  And the teeth clenching started up the TN, so it has been a miserable day.

With each stretch I had trouble pulling my right leg out of it's spastic extension.  The spasticity has been the worst today that it's ever been and my right hip flexors are the weakest they have ever been.  I could barely walk even with my brace.

Has anyone ever had this happen to them???

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I also need to tell you that I will be hit and miss here on the forum until we get the "Information and Resources" section done.  If I get started answering on the forum it uses up all of my screen energy and so I will be taking every other day or so to work and getting the info to MedHelp so that they can make it available to everyone.  Then we won't have to rewrite all the same answers all the time, and I can use research energy to answer the harder questions.

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On Cog and Fog:

Two women with MS were driving to a lunch.  The passenger noticed that her friend had run 4 stop signs in a row.  "Elsie," she said, "Did you know that you didn't stop at any of the last 4 stop signs and just drove right through them?"

Elsie looked perplexed.  "Oh, dear, " she said, slightly stricken.  "Am I driving??"

Luv ya's, Quix

[Chrsyvn]

Don't know anything about what causes it but i have had the yawning thing happen to me,It drives my boyfriend crazy cause he always thinks its because he's boring me.Lol,Wish I could help more,ooh and thanx for the laugh I needed it today:) Good luck to you hope your feeling better:)

[Sailorsong]

Quix,

   I go into yhe yawn and strech thing quite often after I have gotten out of breath for a while (mowing lawn, working in garden, etc). I suspect that is brought on by lack of O2 as someone else suggested. I also get this to occur after one of my sneezing fits last last about 1 hour no matter what I do. I much prefer the yawning to the sneezing BTW.

Dennis
PS loved the brain fog joke.

[Guitar_grrrl]

Jen,
I think you're onto something.  The morning reflexive stretching and resulting "Charlie Horse from He!!" is what brought me to the neurologist after putting up with it for 9 months (this was 2 years ago)!!  He watched me demonstrate the motions for him.  I started on my side (Quix, I know you sleep on your back on your recliner), went to turn onto my back when the stretch, clonus, and resulting spasms happened right in front of him.  His eyes got really big, and he scribbled some notes, and said, "yep, that's spinal lesions for ya".

Quix,
Thanks for all you do!  You're truly a wizard!  Treat yourself to some chocolate after that Man-O-Gram.  Maybe call your neuro about the stretch/yawn/spaz stuff.  If it's new, or ? maybe a flair?...

Hugs,
Guitar_grrrl

[jensequitur]

I have experienced something similar, although usually it's in the morning.  When I start moving around in bed, before I get up, my legs will stretch out uncontrollably, and will stay extended until I can talk them into relaxing.  This takes some effort on my part.  Then if I stay still for any length of time, when I do get up, my body and especially my back starts stretching out and stiffening up.  I'm sure this looks weird, because I'll get up, then stiffen up for a few seconds, and then start moving - but kind of an old person's walk, until everything gets going.

I haven't done the uncontrollable yawning thing though - I wonder if it's related to oxygen intake, or if it's just a misfiring nerve.

Now in the morning, when I move my legs start to stretch out, they start jerking around rhythmically.  This has gotten worse since I started running again.

Last year I was having this weird symptom.  I would get this odd sensation in my abdomen, which built up until all of a sudden, my back would arch and my head would snap back.  There were three or four days in a row when this kept happening, and I was just exhausted.  

My neuro thinks it's related to some spinal involvement, even though the (.7!) MRI didn't show anything.  He called it myoclonus.  

So I think there's a lesion in the spine, possibly two, that's causing spinal myoclonus.  It feels like there's a slow buildup of signal in the cord (my increasing tingly sensations,) that eventually fires off (my back arching,) rather like a sneeze.

[cainer]

next  victum      lol   no  more  man-o-grams  4  me-    they can  use ultra sound-  thats  nother story-
  hope  your  stretched back and  all is  well-- i have  done that  oh yea-  not  good   and
yawn   where  neck  it  so  tight  after yawn  wont  relax-  the  tn  gets  bad  too-

    but  tomorrow is another  day!!!   have a good one!!   tick

[grandmabob]

I've had the uncontrollable stretching twice, about a year part. When I do this my legs and feet go into 'charlie horse' cramps. My whole body is a wreck today from about 4 hrs of this. I've noticed the uncontrolable yawning also. DOES ANYONE HAVE A CLUE????????????