weird things happen.

[worried309]

This has been happening for awhile now and i've never known what to do about it. It doesn't happen all the time just every now and then. Sometimes when i go to sleep i'll be laying there trying to sleep and my leg or arm might twitch a little. Other times it might be my eyes. But when it's my eyes/head it feels like something has hit me in the head and i can actually hear like a thud noise and i can feel it. it doesn't hurt it just feels weird. When this happens it makes my eyes scrunch like when you really do get hit. This will sometimes happen for a few minutes or maybe twenty minutes just periodically. Also every now and then i could be sittin on the couch just relaxing and it will happen and it seems like the lights flickered or shut off then turned back on. Usually when this happened i would ask if anyone else saw the lights flash and they didn't and that's when i knew i might have something to worry about. I also have a history of really bad migraines. I get them all the time and i've seen neurologists in the past and all sorts of doctors for them and nobody found anything. A chiropractor said it was just the vertebrates out of place. Him realigning them helped the migraines, but i still get them and any light or sound is excrutiating. I now wonder if the migraines have something to do with these things happening. I just want to know if this could be anything or if it could just be from being sleep deprived all the time. I'm now 18 and these things have been happening since i was maybe 13 or 14. Another thing i should include is that i did have a head injury when i was 7. I was hit in the head with a baseball bat pretty hard and i got 8 stitches that day. I blacked out for a few seconds, but never fell from it i just remember everything going black for a few seconds then seeing blood gushing from the front of my head.

[worried309]

One more thing i forgot about the symptoms you listed. I am going through a little bit of depression, but that is something that kind of runs in my family. My aunt and grandma are bi-polar. I also do have some tingling in my legs and very rarely i have a burning sensation in one of my legs. It doesn't last very long maybe a few seconds some times and other times a minute or so. The last few years it seems like my body is getting weaker and weaker. My joints and body hurt more i can't do as much as i used to. Basically i feel like im in my older stage of my lifetime. It's like my body is progressing a lot faster than it should be.

[worried309]

I have been on migraine medicine before and one of them was amitryptaline. I cannot remember the other ones because they tried so many and all of them either didn't help or just made me sleep and would make me fall asleep while even standing up. Something i forgot to mention was that every once in awhile i may have like a sharp pain like a needle on my head that feels like it's inside my head. It's never in the same spot. I'm also having a sleep study done in a few weeks to be tested for sleep apnea since i had it when i was a kid and now have troubles sleeping all the time. I've had many sicknesses like scarlet fever, pneumonia, chicken pox three times, shingles, asthma my whole life, had a heart murmur when i was a kid, and the list goes on. I've also had a weakened immune system since i was born which was part of the reason i almost died. most of the things i listed i had when i was a baby. I'm just more worried about the neurological part of this. A few other things i have is that my vision keeps getting worse. I'll get new glasses and then a week later or a few weeks later my vision is already bad. My body aches. All day every day i will have aches and pains in my joints. Mainly my knees and back. I was tested for lupus because my mom was borderline of having it so that was ruled out for the body weakness. Could all these symptoms be from having something neurologically wrong with me? And could this sleep study tell if something is neurologically wrong or will it only tell them the sleep habits i have and what my breathing and brain activity is like? I know that this test records breathing, heart rate, and brain activity like any movements while sleeping including eye twitches or limb movements, but would it show them anything besides those things if there was something neurologically wrong.

[Dr Sharma]

Hi there. These sound like migraines with visual hallucinations including light flashes as the aura. Since you have been having muscle twitches in the limbs before sleep, it could be due to muscle fatigue, magnesium deficiency, dehydration etc. consult a neurologist for evaluation. You might need medicines for migraines like the one to prevent the attack usually anti convulsants like topamax, and triptans to terminate an attack. If these measures do not help, it would be wise to check in for multiple sclerosis. . Multiple sclerosis is a chronic demyelinating neurological disorder where the disease phase is characterized by active phase and remissions. It has multiple symptoms and signs and is a diagnosis of exclusion. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis are loss of balance, muscle spasms, numbness in any area, problems with walking and coordination, tremors in one or more arms and legs. Bowel and bladder symptoms include frequency of micturition, urine leakage, eye symptoms like double vision uncontrollable rapid eye movements, facial pain, painful muscle spasms, tingling, burning in arms or legs, depression, dizziness, hearing loss, fatigue etc. You have many of these symptoms. The treatment is essentially limited to symptomatic therapy so the course of action would not change much whether MS has been diagnosed or not. Apart from clinical neurological examination, MRI shows MS as paler areas of demyelination, two different episodes of demyelination separated by one month in at least two different brain locations. Spinal tap is done and CSF electrophoresis reveals oligoclonal bands suggestive of immune activity, which is suggestive but not diagnostic of MS. Demyelinating neurons, transmit nerve signals slower than non-demyelinated ones and can be detected with EP tests. These are visual evoked potentials, brain stem auditory evoked response, and somatosensory evoked potential. Slower nerve responses in any one of these is not confirmatory of MS but can be used to complement diagnosis along with a neurological examination, medical history and an MRI and a spinal tap. Therefore, it would be prudent to consult your neurologist with these concerns. Take care.