Hi guys; it has been a long time and I hope that everyone is the best they can be!
Just a stupid question; has anyone ever been woken up to feeling like their in the middle of an earthquake; just to find out that it's you, not the earth? It started out in the beginning several years ago with just a sensation that someone was "shaking the bed, couch, ect." I woke up the other day with a full body sensation-as if I was in an earthquake. My body wasn't shaking-but I had the sensation that it was...very strange; and not one of my regular symptoms.
This seems to happen mostly when I am lying down; but I've had movement sensations while sitting down. The sitting down sensation is always a feeling like someone is shaking their leg or shaking the furniture. When I wake up in the morning and lay down at night the "buzzing" sensation starts out like electricty running through my body's circutry. It isn't painful-just weird.
I hope everyone is doing well! Take care and God Bless!
Hi Holly,
It's good to see you here again. I hope you're doing well.
I also have some of what you're describing. I get jerking legs at night due to "periodic leg movement disorder". This was diagnosed at a recent sleep study I did related to sleep apnea. This will wake me up when I start kicking. The docs don't think it is related to the white matter problem and it is a little different from the shaking or buzzing feeling that I also have.
For me the buzzing is most noticeable when I'm awake, but tired. It will typically feel like it's deep inside my body between the top of my hips and my spine, but it can also be in my groin. It feels like a slow buzzing or a rapid twitch. I can put my hand to the area affected when it comes on but I can't feel any shaking or movement going on. It doesn't last long (5 to 10 seconds) but it's long enough in duration to give me a good idea of where I think it is coming from.
I have essential tremor in my hands, head, and voice as well. I also have rapid spasms in my esophagus from time to time. (Feels like about five or six mini-hiccups about a second apart.) This is a very different feeling from the internal buzzing but it seems like it could be related.
I hope you're feeling better soon. Sometimes these little weird things come and go and don't seem to mean anything. Take care.
Hi Holly, I have the exact same thing. It is like a small tremor. I have asked my husband many times if he feels an earthquake. Also, I was wondering if you have thyroid condition. I do, could this be the problem
I developed a hashimotos in late 2009; it is thyroid disease-also autoimmune-but it was the very beginning of it-I developed hypervascular nodules-and they know I didn't have them before-because my thyroid was the very first thing tested and continued to be monitored after that. Your thyroid can cause major symptoms-that are very similar to MS-however, my thyroid was perfect until it wasn't and my symptoms came before and even after having a thyroid (it was removed in early 2010) and my symptoms have remained and gotten worse. Not everyone developes multiple autoimmune diseases who have MS-but it does seem to be an issue for some-it definitely isn't unheard of. I have learned to live with what I have-but have refused major medications-preferring to 'deal with' my symptoms and issues as they occur. It's just my way of coping; we all do what we need to survive. I hope this helps! Holly