Any ideas

[Nat1983]

Hi there,

I wonder if you can help me.

I am 25years old, when I was younger in my sleep I had strange dreams like my mind was racing with all sorts of images and noises. Eventually it stopped.

About a year ago I started having muscle spasms mainly in my arms, now and again in my leg too. Normally when I am just about to drop to sleep I nock everything off my bedside table. This would happen about twice a week.

At Christmas My mind started racing again but when I was awake nothing I would do it just made me angree and on edge, this has happened a few time since only lasting for a few minutes each time, however one has lasted for about 7 minutes.

About one month ago I was laying in bed and my girlfriend was woken by me shaking like I was having a fit, she watched me and made sure I was ok watching me sleep. Since this fit or whatever my spasms have got more frequent about 4 times a week, all when I am dropping to sleep. Twice now I have managed to stop myself from knocking everything off the side. ( I don’t always know I’m doing it I wake up to a fan, and cups all over the floor then my girlfriend tell me I have another do).

The mind racing I hate, and sometime feel it coming on.

I was a relaxed person but over the last couple of years I have been getting annoyed epically when warm, angree, tired and now and again I feel really down for no reason. Sometimes I just want to get up and start sprinting for no reason or start punching a punch bag, scream, shout anything.

I can’t sit still I need to be doing something and get very annoyed with people talking on and on and on or can’t make simple decisions. Lots of little things make me so annoyed.

Even long emails annoy me and I leave them till I am in the right frame of mind to read some at least.

Any ideas?

Best regards
Nathaniel  

[Sweetnsimple]

After almost every test under the sun, I was convinced that it was something more. I recently found out that I have a great aunt, a great grandmother and a great x2 grandmother who suffered from the same things. My aunt is still alive but her mom and grandmom are not. She told me the emotions that I feel are of those who I see. She told me to just pray because that is all that may help me. I have been crying all day because I am starting to realize that everything she told me may be true. I haven't spoken to her since my 16th birthday and this is our reunion? I think I may need to visit her and talk about it some more because I find myself trying to find meds that help me stay awake. I guess I'm in the wrong forum, huh? Thanks a lot anyways.

[ILADVOCATE]

Perhaps you should see a neurologist and get a sleep test and EEG and any other tests they think are needed. I have a neurological disability that is under study and they are treating it with a new anti convulsant.

[Sweetnsimple]

Ok, before you read this, I want you to know that it is going to sound very weird. When I was little I would also have these weird dreams that would cause me to wake up with weird things on my mind. Sometimes I would swear it was real because I could smell and feel as if it were. I thought I grew out of it......until 2006. I felt myself drifting off to sleep one night so I reclined my chair and closed my eyes and out of nowhere I jump straight to my feet and i  breathing as if I am afraid and have this sudden urge to burst into tears. Another time my husband said I was jerking and movving like I heard a nervous tick and when he woke me I immediately jump to my feet once again. This time I was very angry and growled like an animal of some sort. He was freaked out and didn't want to go back to sleep. The final straw was when I was watching television and out of nowhere I took a deep breathe and felt as if I could run a marathon. My sister said I spoke very fast and took short breathes in between each sentence.                                                       Now, this is weird, I have dreams of people who are dead. This started last year (april to be exact) and completely freaked me out beyond anything else that has happened. I didn't know they were dead until I saw my neighbors mom just before her funeral. I gasped and I jumped out of bed. I then noticed that now this only happens when I see someone. I haven't told anyone besides my husband. I have been evaluated 6 times and even been to numerous psychologists, psychiatrists and they all say I am perfectly normal. My husband thinks I have a gift that is progressing and that I should embrace it. I am 26 and also born in 1983, if it could get any more weird. Please keep me posted, if you are evaluated and they find nothing I will be very worried for you. Could be a coincidence........

[tweekie]

I think you should go to your primary care physician first and then perhaps see a neurologist to rule out any kind of physical/neurological problems, and then talk to a psychiatrist.  That's my advice, coming from working in the health care profession.

tweek

[adel_ezz]

Hi

I would see a doctor. Some doctors work both as a psychiatrist and a neurologist, rare, but they exist in my country, because you have fits in addition to racing thoughts. I remember at the onset of my disease i had fits as well but i used to take zoloft so perhaps it drove me hypomanic a little. But you said you ain't taking anything. Perhaps you are nervous and this happens often that your leg say does a jerky movement but this doesn't last long i.e. sometimes. Usually doctors consider a person ill when the symptoms last for a while and become more frequent. it's like you are depressed for a few days the pdocs don't consider giving you an AD except after 10 days at least. Perhaps you show early parkinsonism i don't know. But all the posts advise you that you should go to see a doctor and they are right about it

good luck and don't take it on your nerves

[Nat1983]

Thanks for your help, I am not sure what it is. I will go see the doctors. At the moment I am not taken any meds or ever gone doctors about it. I shall go soon hopfuly get to the bottom of this. Thanks again.

[ILADVOCATE]

It depends if you've ever taken medication before. Some medications such as antipsychotics can cause movement disorders. That can include if you took them in the past. You should see a neurologist about that and you could post in the neurology forum for more information. However, as regards bipolar there are many available treatments. You can speak to a psychiatrist for more information but have the physical disability diagnosed as well and let the psychiatrist know the results of that.

[Xila31]

I would say the fits when you are going to sleep is something you should bring up to your doctor. If it is causing so much trouble that your girlfriend is lying awake to watch you sleep, then you need to see your doctor soon. You may need to see a sepecialist. I've never heard of this myself but since it seems to happen frequently and is causing concern you should make an appointment.

Racing thoughts, bring it up to your doctor. It is hard to say. The two may be connected, or maybe not. For me, once I start having racing thoughts they last all day, sometimes for multiple days without stopping. But everyone is different, so just ask your doctor.