26 year old male with neurological symptoms and strange heart palpitations

[ThinkandConquer]

Hi all -

I'm a 26 year old male, moderately active. I have an essential tremor that ranges from mild to moderate on any given day. Over the past few years though I've noticed other symptoms pop up. I've had intense bouts of fatigue, which I thought might've been related to depression. I also have mild sensations in my legs, especially at night. Little tingles and crawling sensations. And some cognitive cloudiness that seems to have been resolved mostly by antidepressants. I also have twitches in my legs, hands and tongue that show up a few times a month.

The most recent symptom, and one that particularly concerns me, is a peculiar, somewhat intense and jolting sensation that is best described as an earthquake feeling. It happens mostly at night as I'm sleeping, and makes my bed shake noticeably - just like a seismic episode. At first I didn't notice any real physical feelings outside of the bed shaking, but just had an episode as I was seated in a chair, an noticed that it feels like it may be related to my heart. I have noticeable heartbeats that sway my body back and forth very mildly - with occasional jolting,harsh earthquake-like beats that give me that same sort of earthquake sensation I sometimes feel at night. The episodes rarely last longer than fifteen seconds, and can be as brief as 2-3 seconds

I'm fully open to the idea that much of this is maybe totally imagined, but it definitely feels real. I'm wondering if I should be a little more proactive in getting MS ruled out. Has anyone had any similar issues? With MS or otherwise? I look forward to your thoughts!

[Red_Star]

You sound like you might have myoclonus. I had this symptom..mine was myoclonic jerks that came out of nowhere and jolted the bejesus out of me. This only happened at night; it was one of my many symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency. And yes you can have symptoms with B12 in "normal" range sad to say. Been there done that! Although eventually over many decades my B12 went below the range.  I take sublingual B12 spray daily for my autoimmune pernicious anaemia.  This info is from the wikipedia article Myoclonus...They didn't mention B12 deficiency..humph! lol...


"Myoclonus is a brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles. It describes a medical sign and, generally, is not a diagnosis of a disease. These myoclonic twitches, jerks, or seizures are usually caused by sudden muscle contractions (positive myoclonus) or brief lapses of contraction (negative myoclonus). The most common circumstance under which they occur is while falling asleep (hypnic jerk)."

Myoclonic jerks may occur alone or in sequence, in a pattern or without pattern. They may occur infrequently or many times each minute. Most often, myoclonus is one of several signs in a wide variety of nervous system disorders such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Dystonia, Alzheimer's disease, Gaucher's disease, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), serotonin toxicity, some cases of Huntington's disease, some forms of epilepsy, and occasionally in intracranial hypotension. Some researchers indicate that jerks persistently may even cause early tremors."