Re: jerking muscles--OMG me too!

[Guest guest]

Yeah, this happens to me all the time. And scares the daylights outta me!! LOL

Anyone know why this happens??

~Tina in NC~

Jeanne and Dave djgraves9497@...> wrote:

The same thing happens to me during the day when I lie down for a nap.

Either my leg will jerk, or my whole torso which feels like my whole body does.

Scares the crap out of me because I'm drifting off to sleep, and then the jerk

comes out of nowhere.

Now at bedtime this doesn't happen so much. Must be because of the muscle

relaxers I take at bedtime.

Jeanne in WI

My muscles twitch but it's mainly when I am trying to relax and sleep. It's a

horrible feeling to just be laying there and all of a sudden you have a bad jerk

in your body.

Debra B

[Guest guest]

I think I learned in HS science that a build up of lactic acid in the muscles

causes these body jerks at bedtime or when we try to relax, for anyone. I don't

know if that is the same reason for those of us with FM.

Jeanne in WI

Yeah, this happens to me all the time. And scares the daylights outta me!! LOL

Anyone know why this happens??

~Tina in NC~

[Guest guest]

The twitching is called fasciculations ( can read more about it here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciculation or of course google it). I take

Baclofen for mine which is effective but i do still have it to a certain degree

along with the muscle jerking and the whole body twitching. Strange how most of

us have common weird symptoms like this.

From: Jeanne and Dave

Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 12:36 PM

To: Fibromyalgia_Support_Group

Subject: Re: jerking muscles--OMG me too!

I think I learned in HS science that a build up of lactic acid in the muscles

causes these body jerks at bedtime or when we try to relax, for anyone. I don't

know if that is the same reason for those of us with FM.

Jeanne in WI

Yeah, this happens to me all the time. And scares the daylights outta me!! LOL

Anyone know why this happens??

~Tina in NC~