Brain shaking/vibrating while sleeping

Question

I hope you may can give me an idea of what i am experiencing. Over the past couple weeks, I have taken a few daytime naps where my body is asleep but my mind is aware. During this time, I am feeling my brain shake or vibrate very very intensely. It is so intense that it will cause my teeth to chatter and cause a loud sound like a motorcycle engine. As the vibrations/shaking get more intense, the sound gets louder. The last time this happened   the vibrations felt like caused some sort of fluid to run out of my ear that was face down on the pillow. I have had some brain zaps during the day associated with cymbalta which i was taking for neuropathy. I also had a neck fusion about 8 wks ago and 2 weeks ago was involved in another car accident where i was rear-ended. Can you give me any advice?

DrSharma · Accepted Answer

Hi there. Duloxetine or cymbalta on withdrawal or discontinuation presents with dysphoric mood, irritability, agitation, dizziness, and sensory disturbances like paresthesiae or electric shock sensations, anxiety, confusion, tinnitus and seizures. Is your neurologist reducing the drug dose or stopping it abruptly? That could be responsible for electric sensations and shakes in the head. Multiple sclerosis needs to be evaluated 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. 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 in addition, a spinal tap. Therefore, it would be prudent to consult your neurologist with these concerns. Hope this helps. Take care.

abidravian · Answer

Dont waste your time n money. Do it immediately.
Take two piece of raw garlic and mix it with one teaspoon of honey and chew it. You can take a little bit water. Do it before half an hour of breakfast with empty stomach for one month. You will see its result within week. It works 100% bcz I myself faced this situation for one year when all kind of medicine n blood test did not work n now I m very happy by the grace of God.

BIGENDER · Answer

Ok so I'm only a teenager and I'm experiencing brain shakes. Just last night I had a brain shake in my sleep. I had it during the time in my dream when I said it was hard to believe in God and the brain shake stopped just 17 seconds before I woke up but in the dream I was holding my head and when I woke up I was extremely tired, more tired then I usually am when I wake up. I have also experienced night terrors, basically panic attacks while sleeping, could that be a factor into the brain shake even though it's been 2-3 months this since my last night terror

italiankarategirl · Answer

Thank you so much for your reply. Your response really hit home to me when you spoke about the cymbalta. I have been taking cymbalta 60 mg for a year. About 4 wks after surgery, i started taking the 30mg pills and then 2 weeks later i completely stopped it. I know now that was a mistake. Like others, i was not aware nor was i informed by my pain management doctor of the horrid withdrawals from the drug. I suffered severe anxiety, depression, anger outbursts, and brain zaps ( where it felt like a wave of  electricity flowing through my head which caused disorientation). After consulting with my dr, he advised me to return to the 30mg and see how that did and if needed then to return the dose to 60mg. I have been doing ok on the 30mg but i now fear that the experience i described above may be a withdrawal. I wish i could go back in time and known better than to start taking this drug. From what i have read, it is next to impossible to get off of. How serious do you think my experiences in my post above are? Is it possible to have a seizure while asleep? Also, i do plan on seeing a neurologist and getting the exclusion of MS as well. Please offer any advice as it is most helpful to me! :)