Please help me

[elevasseur32190]

So I hope I am doing this right. I am only 21. For about 8 years I have had a bad twitch I guess you could call it. My hands shake back and forth and my head and arms shake. It makes my ribs hurt and sometimes is so bad It is hard to breathe. I cant move while I am shaking I just sit with my hands in my face shaking..My head and arms jerk sometimes uncontrollably. My mother always told em it was just in my head so I never got it checked out. I cant not do it..i have tried. I have had severe migraines for years also, no meds help i have had my eyes checked because there is paion behind my eyes kind of sometimes and they said it is nothing in my eyes. When I eat I tend to feel sick all the time..almost everytime I eat. I eat well but still feel like crap afterwards..also a longterm issue. I also get dizzy quite often and have blacked out atleast 5 times in the past 3 months...I just dont know what to do..I am tired allof the time and my last headace has lasted for a week or more..please help me..


This discussion is related to twitching/tremor.

[Dr Sharma]

Hi there.  There are certain causes responsible for muscle twitching like diet deficiency, drug overdose, and side effects of diuretics, corticosteroids, estrogens, exercise, benign twitches, and nervous system conditions like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, muscle dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy and myopathy. Your neurologist needs to look into these conditions one by one. The other possible cause could be multiple sclerosis 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. Causes of strokes can be investigated like high blood pressure and high cholesterol along with brain hemorrhage. Take care.

[Caryopteris]

Your mom is wrong.  This is not your fault.  You need to see a doctor.  I hope they check for food allergies, but I am not sure what's going on with you, but you are worth the attention of doctors.