Can internal tremors caused by cervical spine issues?

I get that feeling from fibromyalgia. I get vibrating and also numbness and tingling throughout my body.

I will add that I have many herniations including cervical. I had a fusion and discetemy at c5-6.

Oh my goodness. I finally have heard somebody else say that they feel this. They can’t tell me necessarily for sure but they do think that maybe it is something in my spine that is compressing a nerve. I do also have spinal stenosis and bulging disc toward the spine. I also have bones spurs and have been diagnosed with dish disease. Mine is not constant, and I don’t know if it’s because of the way I am sitting. I’m in a medical professional job where I am up and down in a chair and could be standing for a period of time. So I just wanted to let you know that you’re not alone and I feel that as well.🙏

@jyoung74
I have congenital cervical and lumbar stenosis, degenerative disc disease, arthritis, etc. and had ACDF surgery on cervical c5-c6 and lumbar decompression/fusion l3-l5.

Your symptoms are very similar to what I had before surgery. I am 55, female and first diagnosed when 42 and 47. If your spinal cord is being compressed at all, that is an injury to your spinal cord. I had doctors dismiss this for years until I found an orthopedic spine specialist who immediately diagnosed me based upon MRI, exam and review of my symptoms with cervical spondylotic myelopathy. He said I needed surgery asap to stop the progression of the injury. If I fell, I could have been paralyzed. I had neck/shoulder pain and stiffness, daily headaches, weakness/numbness in arms/hands where I dropped things and had difficulty writing legibly, bladder control issues, and difficulty walking (felt like I had heavy boots on). This was all tied to my cervical spinal cord compression. After my surgery, most symptoms improved but I have residual weakness in my arms/hands.

If your doctor is dismissive of your symptoms, you may need a new one who listens and wants to help. I looked up my orthopedic spine specialist online and read patient reviews to find one who is excellent at what he does and has a very good bedside manner where he talks to you, answers questions, is friendly and respectful. He did both of my surgeries (lumbar just done 8/2/2024).

How do I find a Dr to listen. I had the ACDF surgery twice. First C5-6 was fused in 06 then on Aug 19 24 I had the second one. Not two weeks after I carried in a large comforter from car to house and not 30 minutes later I knew something was wrong. It has been horrible I have been falling asleep when I get up during the night to go to bathroom and fall off toilet 5 times and twice off kitchen chairs. I hit hard after falling off toilet this last time and hit the wall as I ducked my head down as I hit and I hit it right in the back of neck where cervical and thoracic meet. I haven’t been the same since. I had tremor/ vibrations before surgery and now I am having them again.C5-C6 and 6-7 are where surgery was. Last MRI showed the C6-7 foramina has moderate stenosis and before surgery it was severe. The MRI right after carrying comforter in showed Mild Stenosis, so it has gotten worse. I keep telling them and they keep acting like it’s nothing or giving me some medical term like it’s normal. Last week I had tremors so bad I couldn’t breathe. I am on oxygen and had to put it on and pulse ox was low and it wasn’t helping so I did an aerosol treatment with no help. It wasn’t helping very scary. I have no life! I can’t read a book or magazine I can’t crochet or work on diamond art no hobby’s without the screaming in my head and shaking starting. Idk if anyone else had all the noise in your head or ears ? I feel like it’s affecting my thyroid function. I was hypo for years but due to having Hashimoto and getting Botox for the pain in my neck my thyroid went hyper. It’s been awful. Now that I’m hypo again i can feel thyroid acting up and it is telling my brain or something it wants food all the time. I did read where C7 can affect thyroid since they are so close together. If I don’t eat the noise in my head gets worse and shaking as well till I do go out and eat. No Drs around here have heard of it and look at me like I’m nuts! I’m not I know what I feel and it’s been 3 long years. I can’t stand it. When I had surgery in Aug I was not given any restrictions nor put in a neck brace. When I said no restrictions he said absolutely not you can go back to your routine. In 06 my Dr had me in a neck brace for 6 weeks and took X-ray and said it wasn’t fusing so I had to stay in it another 6 weeks night and day plus I had restrictions. I figured since that was almost 20 years ago that something had changed and he said we don’t do neck braces anymore. I even explained I was in one for 12 weeks but it didn’t matter. All I want is this to stop and someone listen it’s been awful all the eating and shaking. It’s like I’m sleep walking and doing some crazy stuff in my sleep which I never done before. I’ve wrote enough or I would tell some of the stuff I’ve done. I’m wondering if anyone is from Ohio? I pray everyone is doing good now. I just want to find a Dr who will listen and I’ve been to so many I’m tied of looking for one. I am set to have Ablation in April. My neurologist did listen some cause I told him my legs are now swelling and I already done a blood flow test and came back ok so he said it has to be nerve related! Finally! It’s crazy what our spine can do to us that’s all I can say!

I've had one or two short, episodes of a buzzing feeling in my body. Nothing ever came of it. I can't imagine what it was—lasted about 30 seconds.

Interesting because I have experienced the same thing at times - what felt like tremors, but only in my upper body. It has only happened to me while laying down on my back and while sleeping on my back. Once I woke up and started to move around, it stopped. Scary because I didn't know what was going on and thought maybe my heart was racing, but when I felt my pulse, it seemed normal. I have described the same way as you, feeling like my insides were shivering. I also had (and still have) cervical spine issues including a large disc herniation at C5-6, cord compression, and smaller herniations and stenosis at other levels.

@aokuley WElcome to Connect. Are you able to get another opinion with a spine specialist somewhere else that isn't connected to your present doctor? With the fall you had, you could have shifted or cracked something, and perhaps it was missed. Another set of trained eyes may help. I'm also wondering if physical therapy may help if there isn't further damage, but muscle spasms that shift vertebrae and cause pain. Those can last months.

Yes it has been a worry for me too. Extremely uncomfortable after a walk. Suddenly while stretching in bed I would get stabbing pain and spasm that comes suddenly. I don’t feel anything else like this. Now I am less mobile as a result and have sorted out the bed problem.
So I use a mobility scooter now as well as a walker. It is my saving grace. It is helpful to know various other people’s experiences or similar feelings. I think in my spine at T-12 L-1 it is a problem with a disc fragment pressing near my spinal cord.