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Body vibrations when falling asleep or waking?

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@fabmusik

Hello everyone !

Sorry for my mistakes, english is not my native language. Hope you will understand me anyway !

Before talking about my symptoms (and treatment), I have to say the first ones arrived before I had Covid. I had Covid only this year in june 2022. I'm pretty sure in my case this has nothing in common with covid vaccines but only with neurologic issues.

I had cervical hernia for years (not knowing it !) and two years ago I met a neurologist to help me with this condition. No vibration, just typical hernia symptoms. My neck muscles were very contracted, I couldn't sleep with my head heading to the right side for example.

My neurologist gave me an antidepressor, not for anxiety but for his relaxing effects : amitriptyline (in France, its name is "Laroxyl") : it worked. It takes times (1,5 year like every nerves issues as said by my neurologist) but it worked : no more contraction in my neck, no more pain, no more ticklings in my arms. Great !
I started noticing vibrations during this period (only at night). At first like a buzz in my foot (like a phone buzz, very strange : bzz...bzz...bzz). It disappeared with time.
Then a vibration appeared on my whole face that waked me up, and disappeared only when I was full awake or when I stood up to go to the bathrooms. Not very often but time to time.

I wanted to stop taking Laroxyl, first because I felt that my hernia was gone, and also because one side effect is that you sadly gain a lot of weight (10% of your body weight...). I stopped it a few days and the vibrations gone worse : one night I didn't sleep at all, I slept for 20 minutes then the vibrations waked me up, slept again 20 minutes then vibrations, etc.. (still only on my face and neck).

I talked about that with my neurologist : I had an EEG (nothing), and the doctor said to me to continue the Laroxyl treatment (5 drops plus another drug, Neurotin, one pill before sleep), it didn't seem to bother him, not because he doesn't know what it is, but because he thinks it's not very serious.
The treatment seemed to work fine for a few weeks but recently vibrations came back. It felt like my neck, face, arms or hand muscles are on a on/off mode, very quickly. It's not shaking, my hands are still for example, but I feel it, like a river flow or a fridge buzz. It's internal, not visible from the outside but I can feel it by touching my skin. It's sometimes more intense and kind of frightening ! But no pain at all, the only problem is that I don't sleep well. Recently, I started feeling the vibrations during the day (arms, legs, neck), so I decided to take more drops of Laroxyl (10) (during my hernia treatment, I took 15 drops of Laroxyl every evening, and more at the very beginning).

I don't know how long the vibrations will be there, maybe years, forever, ... ? My guess is that my muscles were contracted for so many years that maybe it's hard for them to be relaxed. Or is that the follow-up stage of the heal ? The nerve issues can last a long time, even if the problem is solved said my neurologist. I'll meet my doctor in two months, maybe I'll have more informations.

Hope this helps, and sorry again for syntax and other mistakes 🙂

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Replies to "Hello everyone ! Sorry for my mistakes, english is not my native language. Hope you will..."

I totally understand what you are saying, and thank you for sharing. It does feel like a switch On/Off situation. It's not really the On (buzzing) that bothers me, it's the Off that seems to be frightening. Like you might not necessarily notice the buzzing if it wasn't shutting off. When it stops it kind of flips a switch in your brain, like oh no! That is the frightening part.