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View Poll Results: Does anyone else have involuntary muscle twitches? | |
Yes, I twitch
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No, I don't twitch
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24-06-2008, 03:50 AM
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| |  muscle twitches
My muscles are constantly contracted and it is difficult for me to walk because of same. |
24-06-2008, 06:14 AM
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ChrisB,
I don't think your observation is weird at all; it makes perfect sense to me. In addition, I do a lot of shuddering at the end of some high stress situations or moments. It feels like a shaking off of something - adrenaline? Could be as simple as such a biochemical response, though I have other feelings attached to it, but I can't think of how to express them right now. |
24-06-2008, 07:47 AM
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Eye and facial (cheeks) twitch. Hands/arms shake majority of the time. At night my I have leg and arm jerks. Apparently I kick the wife quite often. I used to have really bad constant twitching/jerking of my arms almost all the time, it was almost as if I was in convulsions; mostly noticeable when I was relaxed because when I concentrated on movement it would diminish. |
24-06-2008, 12:48 PM
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I 'twitch' sometimes when I'm just about to fall asleep - usually arms or legs. I used to full on shake (usually just after falling asleep and would wake myself up!), but that hasn't happened in a while. My doctor said it was the body's way of trying to get rid of excess tension. |
24-06-2008, 01:32 PM
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i think its a side effect of an antidepressant. |
24-06-2008, 03:15 PM
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I am surprised to see a thread about twitching. I sit and watch m y toes move and twitch on their own. I see the muscles in my legs move. It's like looking at a bag of cats moving inside.
The feeling is so strange to see body parts move and have no control over them. I hate when my toes start twitching because they eventually start cramping up and moving directions that they are not designed for. It is painful when you toes turn around side ways and cross over eachother.
But yes to twitching and it drives me crazy |
24-06-2008, 05:22 PM
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2quilt- I'm not on antidepressants and I twitch! |
25-06-2008, 04:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Auburngirl  2quilt- I'm not on antidepressants and I twitch! | I've shaked/twitched for some time now....long before meds were involved. |
25-06-2008, 04:39 AM
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Same with me. I'm not on anti-depressants and I've twitched for years! |
25-06-2008, 06:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Auburngirl I 'twitch' sometimes when I'm just about to fall asleep - usually arms or legs. | Twitching when falling asleep is known as a myoclonic twitch. Don't ask me how I know...it's just one of those tidbits you pick up along the way. I've heard two theories: Your body thinks it's falling and this is an attempt to right itself. And when you relax to sleep your respiration also relaxes and sometimes your brain thinks you've stopped breathing or are not breathing enough and 'jerks' you to make you start breathing again. Don't know which is true. I've done that type of twitching all my life.
The other type of twitching is my startle response that now set into high as its default. Even a thought about twitching can make me twitch. It's become just another thing for me to get used to with PTSD.
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