Muscle Contractions [Please Help]

[paul93]

OK.
When I was younger, I had these "contractions" of my muscles, somewhat, and I would call them 'shiverings'.  Why?  Because my right arm, and leg, (side, basically) would experience something like shivering, but inside the body, and I would feel a warm affect, too.  It was really weird.  My mother says she had what I have when she was younger, and says that it's from growth spurts.  But I've had these 'shiverings' since like 7 years ago.  The doctors don't know what it is, and honestly, it's really hard to explain.  It's like an abnormal feeling or movement in my right side of my body (usually at the more-top part of my right arm), but it makes me feel sad, in a way, as I really dislike them, and I feel weaker when I have them.  Whenever I get them I always just stop what I'm doing.  
If there's anyone else out there that has anything like this or has heard of it, please let me know what it is, or what I could do to treat this!  It really disturbs me!

PS:  I've looked into maybe it being a form of Muscular dystrophy, but am unsure...

Thanks,
        Paul

[paul93]

Thanks, ggreg.  I looked at the link, and after researching, it seems very similar.  I would not at first suspect that, because I would only suspect the legs to be affected, lol.

I researched and found many things of which I have.
I have a lot of stress (mostly from school)
The abnormal sensations occasionally occur in the upper leg, the feet or the arms in addition to the lower leg. - True
Sleeping difficulty - mostly true, I sometimes wake up when I have these 'shiverings'
Symptoms, which may last for 1 hour or longer... - this can be partly true, as sometimes the 'shiverings' are shorter

I thank you for posting, so ever much, and am hopeful this is the answer.

However, it doesn't explain the warm/heat feeling I feel, lol.

[ggreg]

Dear Paul,
One idea is it could be Restless Legs Syndrome.  You can go to the foundation's website rls.org and see if your symptoms sound like what all they have on there.  I have RLS, and when you said "growing spurts," that's what a lot of people describe the familial kind of the syndrome, especially since your mom had it.  There is treatment for it, if that's what you have and if it bothers you enough.

If that's not it, I hope someone else will post their ideas, too.  Eventually you could go to a neurologist doctor, and they can determine if something more complicated is going on.
GG