Body vibrations when falling asleep or waking?
After many google searches for the reason I feel vibration in my head, shoulder and arm just before falling asleep and waking, I found nothing that satisfactorily explained it. Of course anxiety seems to be a common explanation but there was nothing specific enough to help me. I am currently reading Incognito by David Eagleman. It discusses the functioning of the brain as an organ. This morning, going through my routine to get ready for work, I thought of a way to understand the vibrations. Similar to the hypnic jerks we experience occasionally just before we fall asleep, I think the vibrations are intended to arouse me to stay vigilant. Which is the fight or flight mechanism in action. So there is the anxiety connection. Originating in the amygdala. I was thinking Parkinson's or MS but my symptoms don't indicate those conditions, thankfully. It seems counterintuitive to be anxious and sleeping at the same time but the brain can do that. The cerebral cortex sleeps but the life support systems of the brain must stay online, obviously. If you thought you were in danger, sleeping would put you at risk but at some point sleep becomes absolutely necessary. I think the vibrations I have been experiencing are caused by my sympathetic nervous system and not a neurologic disease. Thankfully !
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No because I have PVC's and it's nothing like that. It actually feels like you have swallowed a viberator.. I can place my hand on side of my abdomen and feel the vibrations. I think mine is from injury to ohrenic nerve, swallowing huge gulp of air taking meds. Had it since 2019. My cpap has stopped them right now. Makes sense since the phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm and the diaphragm controls your breathing and having air forced in from the cpap does something.
My symptoms are exactly what you described. I would love it if doctors took us seriously and try to figure out WHY this is happening. I am going back to my neurologist next month and I will discuss it with her again.
I’m glad that I found this post and that I’m not the only one! I’m a 62 yr old woman that has been waking with a slight internal vibration in my eyes, head, and chest for a couple of months now.
If I lightly put my teeth together, I can almost feel them vibrating together.
I am vaxxed & boosted (over a year ago) and I had Covid just under a year ago, so it doesn’t seem either are immediately related. This morning I timed it— they last 3 minutes.
Naturally, googling pulled up either distressing or benign results. I feel like if I go to a doctor, they’re just going to do a bunch of tests that will come back fine and I’ll just look like I’m complaining about nothing significant.
No, not the same at all. I get these when I consume too much alcohol, they aren NOT the same as the vibrations. the vibrations for me seem to be more associated with general insomnia/exhaustion at least in my case.
I honestly think it's the other way around. I think the vibrations wake us up.
I am going to start...I really wish someone would focus on these vibrations and find a cause for them. There HAS to be a common thread. I also take rosuvistatin for cholesterol, I take hormones, I have had a subarachnoid hemorrhage (brain bleed) in 2011, I take metoprolol(beta blocker) for fast heart beat and palpitations. I take blood pressure meds (losartan). I am about 40 pounds overweight and admit I'm not a very active person since retiring even though I have a treadmill in the livingroom. I've just started taking Coq 10 and I take magnesium per cardiologist because it's great for the heart. My palpitations have slowed tremendously since starting Coq 10, ($23 from Amazon). I do not drink and have stopped smoking (3-19). It was so easy, I just never lit up again after a weekend in hospital for cat bite. The urge just wasn't there. There are also pauses in the vibrations at times that coincide with a skipped heart beat. My whole body can feel the pause. PLEASE, surely there has to be somebody out there that wants to figure out what the cause of these vibrations are. I'm donating my body to science so maybe they will find something then, that can help the living.
All my research points to the phrenic nerve which controls the diaphragm which controls the breathing. I believe I injured my phrenic nerve when I swallowed a huge gulp of air taking my morning meds. I had pain for 2 days at base of esophagus and it felt like pills were stuck. My neurologist also thinks the vibrations are because of an over active central nervous system.
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Beginning to believe my vibrations have something to do with hormones and/or blood sugar. I was on tamoxifen for 10 years and was taking 20 mg melatonin/night for at least 10 years. I also believe Covid or the vaccine has a part to play. As well as thyroid. There are a lot of delicate body systems that are interwoven and respond to each other. I hope we can get to the bottom of this. I’m now experiencing buzzing/pins and needles throughout my body on nights when I’m dropping weight. So this may be a blood glucose issue as well. A lot of variables at play. Would love some relief!
I never had covid and I didn't get the vaccine either so I know that's not my issue. There has got to be a common thread. My only hope is that somewhere out there is a doctor willing to take on the challenge.
Are we mostly women experiencing these sensations?
Anyone else with thyroid issues? Post menopausal ?
I’m trying to find the common attributes.