GI Disorder and Internal Shaking

I’m so sorry you are going thru this too. I also have IBS-D . Recently I’ve been taking Metamucil crackers. It seems to be helping me. I’m also on a anti spasmodic drug to help with the internal tremors form the last 2 weeks. I’m still having the tremors all day and night. I had my gallbladder remove 20 yrs ago. Reading your article sounds like what i go thru.

I experienced internal shaking. I could never determine a correlation to any event like eating or anything else. The worse times were when I was pregnant and attended outdoor baseball games, my babies would shake inside of me as if they were terribly cold. I recently had an Electrophoresis and found that I have a Persistence of Fetal Heme. This makes me wonder if having less oxygen in my blood has anything to do with it. I have tried to donate blood on several occassions and was always told at 10.5 heme that I don't have enough to share. I was recently hospitalized and a brilliant doctor checked my magnesium levels. I'm 65 and to my knowlege no one has ever checked my Mg. It was found to be depleted. I was given a shot which felt like stars of energy going throughout my body and felt immediately better! Apparently, it's an iron and is not usually tested for, even though it's next to potassium, salt and calcium on the chart of elements. Perhaps it's essential because ever since having this shot, I have not experienced a tachycardia which I had experienced nightly for years or internal shaking or what I described as "burning blood." Electrophoresis costs $3-$60 and only takes a couple of days. I believe more people should have this to see if they also have heme that is different. Mine has a Gamma Globulin. I have noticed that Mosquitos don't bite me. Maybe they don't like my heme.
I also feel more energized in high elevations. Maybe this heme is good for that.

Hi @crayola1 and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Glad you decided to join the group! You will see that I moved your post to a long standing discussion about GI disorders with internal shaking. There are lots of members talking about this and I think you would really benefit from reading their posts.
Have you consulted with a physician regarding this yet?

Which antispasmodic drug? Is it working?

Teresa, the answer is YES. I not only had shakiness, fatigue, diarrhea, constipation, brain fog and other stuff. MC effected my nervous system, my brain, and my heart. The electrical part of the heart. I learned a lot from a great DR. FINE, researcher in the field of irritable bowels problems. He called me and I could barely think straight. My heart was bothering me and I had the full-throttle Cardiac scare. Had tests in the hospital overnight and my heart is fine. It stems from the Gut. I am a RN, but I really did not know what was wrong with me. I was wearing diapers and feeling sick. I wasted a lot of money on doctors who didn't have a clue. When it's your Gut, GI specialists are beyond bad. That's my two cents worth.

I have Microscopic Coltis, MC. When it comes on, I get shaky, trembling, confusion, and forgetfulness. This disease effects the brain in a big way. Think about all the muscles and nerves you have in your Gut. Takes lots of muscle and nerves to digest food. When things get crazy with diarrhea and constipation, my system goes haywire. I think it also effected my heart. I can tell my body becomes a shaky steam engine. MC is an autoimmune disease that was part of my father's demise.

"I have bowel issues, my legs/arms can sometimes feel heavy/odd, and sometimes I have pain [more like soreness] in my lower back/hips when I've eaten but am constipated." You literally have the exact same problems I'm struggling with that no one can find an explanation for. About 2 years ago I had troubles with gagging all the time and they diagnosed a small hiatal hernia, for that I took PPIs then about a year ago in May 2019 I noticed a sudden change in stool it took on every form or colour imaginable and I had a lot of pain in my epigastric area. I did multiple blood tests which only showed elevated levels of bilirubin but still within non dangerous levels. I did CT scan of abdomen and thorax which were both normal. But yea for a year now I am super fatigued all the time, my legs and upper arms can feel really strange (like a mix of crawling, heaviness, weakness, creepy) and I also feel weird/sore around my kidneys in the back but I can also feel it on 2 points from the front of my body (where my kidneys would be located).

I do not think Restless legs was the correct diagnosis unfortunately. Your case seems so similar to mine and I believe it is something in the gut. Just yesterday by chance I discovered that after oversaturating myself with vitamin C, which leads to watery diarrhea made me feel temporarily a lot better. I'm theorizing that there could be a bacteria or fungus in my gut that releases toxins that produce these symptoms in me. And the watery diarrhea acted as a kind of gut cleanse for a few hours which washed away the toxins for a period of a few hours.

You could try the experiment yourself if you have symptoms, if you experience the same relief it could point us both in the right direction. I drank half a glass of water mixed with a teaspoon of ascorbic soda every half hour until I have to rush to the toilet (Your guts will rumble a lot). It usually takes like 4 glasses and you'll end up an hour on the toilet.

Thank you so much for the Vitamin C suggestion!! I have very similar symptoms with no answer. I used to have horrible acid reflux and GI put me on PPIs too. 2 years ago I found out acid reflux is actually usually caused by low acid. That lead me to research causes of low acid. Thyroid is one of the main things that causes acid reflux, constipation, brain fog, etc. You can have thyroid issues even when thyroid blood tests are "normal". The amount of thyroid hormones that regular drs say we need is usually not enough. You have to go to a holistic dr. Also get reverse t3 tested. Not all holistic drs do it you have to specify and ask.

I had my vitamin levels tested at a health food store. My vitamin C was low. I looked up vitamin C deficiency and toxicity symptoms. I read that too much vitamin C causes diarrhea. Since then I wanted to overdose on vitamin C but wasnt sure how.

Are you still experiencing symptoms?

Hi,
i just saw these posts. And i thought if i answer, it might help someone. I have SIBO and Leaky gut syndrome. And i had internat tremors and other horrible symptoms. The only thing that helped me was a diet with no gluten, no lactose, no sugar. Most of the time only vegetables and fruits. That was when my symptoms got less and less over time. I hope you got better since then though. Because of the leaky gut i had a sensitivity for gluten, lactose and sugar. That‘s why, after i ate these things, in the night i was getting those weird tremors. I also had tinnitus and brain fog, i felt anxiety and my muscles feld very stiff. The most horror thing was the asthma at night , i couln’d sleep because i wasn’t able to breath. I took some medication for asthma, but none made it go away. I tried everything, i went to a lot of doctors and no one could help me. Besides i am a doctor myself and i didn’t know what’s going on with me. I am really happy that i feel better now.