Hello and hope you are doing well.
Your symptoms of moving your limbs in sleep could be due to a sleep disorder called Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD). They disrupt sleep and cause involuntary movements during sleep. The cause is not known. They can be diagnosed with a sleep study and medications help to control them. So, I would advise you to consult your primary care physician for further evaluation. He may then ask for a sleep study called polysomnography for further evaluation.
Hope this helped and do keep us posted.
Yeah, yours sounds perfectly normal!! Even though I'm medicated my neurologist said its perfectly normal to have minor flinches when you're tired or stressed. I'm assuming you have some type of sleeping issue... good luck, hope you get it figured out. Trust me, its worth looking into. But, life could be much worse. Take care buddy!
Hello, I'm not sure our conditions are completely the same but thanks for replying. Those flinches, or jerks as I call them, only happen to me when I'm in bed trying to relax and I haven't had any headaches or vision problems. It's probably not a big deal since many people experience this when going to sleep, it's just I think anxiety and lack of sleep make it worse.
I am IN NO form a doctor. But I do have JME (Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy). Its a VERY mild form of epilepsy. I flinched pretty badly, and it was usually in the morning when I first woke up or late at night when I was tired. I also had headaches and felt very weak sometimes. Went in and saw a neurologist because one day I fell out of my bed and didn't recognize my parents and felt like I couldn't even lift my arms without getting exhausted. I had a grand Mal of course. And those twitches were small seizures (called myoclonic jerks). ANd alcohol, stress, and lack of sleep increases the likeliness for the jerks. I have been flinching since I was 14. In college (at age 19-22) they jerks got more invasive and I would be brushing my teeth and flinch and hit my toothpaste all over my face, or flinch and knock a toaster off the counter. Then my eyes started rolling back into my head (only for a mere 8 seconds or so) and I would kinda space out for a bit, then bounce right back. Then I had the grand mal, and they put me on Keppra (very low dosage) and I haven't had the flinches since! Ill get one every now and then, but that's normal. I also work out pretty hard so those are muscles flinches too. I have found that losing weight, eating a healthy diet, and working out keeps me pretty centered. I will tell you when I miss a pill (only has happened twice in 5 years) I can tell something's not right, but as soon as I take on, I feel better in about 15 minutes!! Not sure if that's in my head, but it works for me. And when I feel weird, my vision's off, and i get slightly dizzy and its hard to think (not too bad) but I get a little confused. And my vision feels like its closing in.... and I know if I get that feeling I pop a pill, and its gone!! So not to scare you, but if its that, its easy to fix and well regulated! Good luck!! I hate those flinches though, when I was in high school everyone thought it was so funny, college too and so did I... never knew it was actually a problem since I had flinched my whole life. But I no longer have headaches or flinch!! Its awesome. Hope you can figure it out.