Muscle Jerks

[Sidesteps]

I have a couple questions.

I have had muscle twitches for nearly a year now. It was my presenting symptom. It started out as the full body jerk you get when you fall asleep, except that it progressed to happening every night and I was wide awake.

Those stayed and then I started having the twitches (little muscle twitches like you eyes twitch) but it was primarily ocurring on the left side of my body - my bicep, my quad, my calf, the bottom of my foot. Those progressed and at my worst they were all over my body... I felt them EVERYWHERE... yes, even in very private areas. They still primarily ocurr on the left side of my body but I'll sometimes get them on the right as well.

The part that is concerning to this is they haven't gone away - they get better for a bit, then get worse when I'm not feeling well or near my cycle.

I also get what I would refer to as random tics. It's not a tic more like a muscle jerk.  I can feel the sensation of energy starting and then my arm or left will move. It is almost always my right arm and my left leg - sometimes my right foot.

I am also really concerned about a couple new symptoms:

My muscles ache lately (a deep ache that seems to radiate but doesn't specifically start or end anywhere) these are usually in my bicep or leg and sometimes my forarm. I will rub it but it keeps coming back.  Is that spasticity?

The most worrisome is a sensation that my fingers and hands feel tight (I am stretching them several times a day.) I am really concerned about the sensation that a few of my fingers feel like they are trying to lock up, cramping (?), or become super stiff they don't want to move normal. It's worse in my left hand where I have left arm/hand tremors.

I am normally extremely flexible - one of the people that the doctor's are shocked at my flexibility (I can bend my thumb all the way to my wrist - so this is not normal for me. I'm a bit worried this isn't an MS thing. I also can bend over and touch my toes without working at stretching.) Does anyone have any idea what this could be?

Has anyone else had these?

[cainer]

i have had electric shocks very bad- very scarey- then after 6 weeks am fine-
but anyway  you are not nuts!!   if you are lol we all are!!   hugs

[Sidesteps]

My twitching and jerks started out intermittant but have progressed to being chronic - if I'm in a flare they will increase in frequency and severity (become stronger).

I get the electrical build up where it can be super fast and the jerk happens nearly immediately... or I can sort of feel it coming on over a few seconds to minutes and the I jerk.

When all this began for me... I had three weeks where I felt an "energy" all over my body. At that time, I was having the muscle twitching and "tic like" jerks all day long. I sincerely felt I had developed a "tic" but it's not. The myoclonus is in my left leg, my left hip, my stomach/back area, my right arm and shoulder.

I also get a pressure sensation in my waist/rib area. I have had the pressure feeling in my waist for a month now. It feels like it's starting to let up now. At my worse, the pressure was under my rib cage, it felt like something was "swollen" all along my upper abdomen. It was very uncomfortable.

You aren't losing your mind. What tests are being ran on you?

[LMonty]

i hope its ok to ask a question since the discussion is muscle jerks. i too get that electrical buildup think usually followed by a muscle spasm. it comes and goes, going on for days or even weeks, then seems to go away for months. does that happen to anyone else too, that its intermittent like that? the episodes usually do go along with other neuro symptoms, basically they are part of an exacerbation or flare of whatever i have got.

the other question-do you ever get the electric feeling and the jerk is delayed, just staying there for quite awhile? i had  it when this flare started and it was just about my whole left side below the neck. lasted for about 4 or 5 hrs and was terribly uncomfortable. it was really hard to get distracted from it, and made doing anything harder because i couldn't seem to concentrate  on anything but that. finally i gave up and took a Valium and went to bed. when i woke it was gone but that's when the really tight muscles on my ribcage started, just on the left. like i was being squeezed from behind by someone but only on the left. lasted for days.

i'm really wondering if this electrical buildup that doesn't go away is bizarre and i am crazy. or is it something that happens to other people too. it is really scary. i have my first neuro appt on tuesday and don't know how to explain this to him or even bring it up, im afraid he will think its just anxiety.

[MissLauraI]

I have had similar things too (un-dx though). The other day my index finger just started juming up and down. It lasted for about an hour and then quit. I get eye and lip twitches that will last for days. I also have spasms in my lower back and on the right side of my neck. If I use my hands too much I get terrible writers cramps. I too can bend my thumb to my wrist...weird huh :D

[cainer]

hi-- well i was taken to hospital because of jerking! scared hubby!  anyway you probably need some meds to help- they put me on mysolene, it really helped!! id go to eat-and well it was to dangerous,you can not control it- its frustrating!!

[Sidesteps]

I've been tested. It was negative. I also don't live anywhere near tics and haven't for nearly 24 years. It's not Lymes but thank you. :)