Chronic Pain
Posted on: Mon, 10/06/2008 - 18:13
Offline
twitching
i wanted to ask and see if anyone else had body twitches. I get these twitches as i call them, my arm , leg, hand, toes, foot will jump every now and then. It is really odd. Occasionally i even feel it in my neck or head.
I am still waiting to see a pain management dr so we can find out all what is going on. But i wanted to ask you all
Thanks
Kristi
- Login or register to post comments
- 486 reads
Print This Page
advertisement
advertisement
User login
New forum topics
Top Clinical Trials
Who's online
There are currently 23 users and 1212 guests online.
Quick Find
Double laminectomy L4-L5, bulging discs, DDD, Bone spurs, nerve damage in left leg and hip, DJD, and that to familiar visitor,arthritis
I too twitch, have dome for over a year now, however has got worse due to the medication so I echo the advice to check with your doctor
I have twitching in different parts of my body. I believe mine are due to muscle spasms. You might want to bring that possibility up.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. That is why they call it the present.
i have had the same twitching for 8 yrs now. since i have been on lyrica its gotten better but not completely gone away. i think mine is that my muscles and nerves are inflammed due to my rheumatoid arthritis and therefore they are reacting abnormally. hope you can find out what it is and get some help. those are soo aggrevating!
karenc
I have had twitching for years. I have thought mine could have been due to dehydration but I have them on and off. Now since my back pain has become worse I have twitching to the point where I have a jumping effect. I dont know if it is meds, or nerve but I dont take any nerve meds, just pain and anxiety meds.
Hi kristy, I, like the others twitch and have like strong electric surges. more like being zapped by lightning, Its freaky and has been going on every since my first surgery and I was on flexeril and vicodin. But since then I've been on many different opioids for 6 yrs. now and they continue in one form or another. I'm really hard to treat because meds work so differently on me, sometimes backwards or opposite reactions. But for me I'm sure its the opioids.
Good luck, Jim
First back injury 1970 work related conservative treatment.Several low back accidents over the years,Treatments, Chiropractors,
In 1988 serious low back injury, off work 6 mo. Treatment Chiropractors, anti inflammatory meds.
1989 serious back injury, also work related, Saw 6 different doctors over next 6 mo. Orthopedic doc. ordered mri. Findings, L4,L5,S1, DDD, Bulging discs.Got "KSLO 2" body back brace. Ortho suggested 360 3 level fusion w/Harrington rods.
I refused surgery and went for the brace 24-7 and conservative treatments with stronger anti inflammatories.
1998 another setback, Ortho still wanted fusion. I asked for other conservative treatments. Sent to Pm doc for epidurals. And tufted it out with no pain meds. Had as many epidurals as aloud till Oct. 2002 and could no longer work.
2003 anterior posterior 360 3 level fusion w/ bone harvest from my hip. After recovery I felt like I had the back of a 20 year old for 7 mos. Then I went straight downhill... FAST!
2004 L,3 Fused. Never recovered
2005 Had hardware removed, thinking that was the problem. I recouped from surgery but no improvement.
2006 Had scs installed. They couldn't get the stimulation where I needed it. They said they had never seen a Human wired like me. After every kind of injection there is. I'm on 50 mg methadone, Hydrocodone 20/30 apap for break through, Celebrex 200 2 a day, Diaspam 5 mgs. 2 a day, wellbutrin xl 150 mgs. cymbalta 20 mgs. and lidoderm lidocane 5% patches. I was a "type-A workoholic" Now I don't quite know what I am!
..............QUESTION AUTHORITY.......................
Kristi,
That spasm or twitching you mention is very common and possibly the medication makes us relax more and increases the propensity to twitch itself, the tens machine I once used seem to simulate that action and make it worse however hard I tried to place it in a different position. I have tried alternative positioning to reduce its happening with little success.
It can seem funny but somewhat embarrassing sitting in a public place or near someone, the origin is difficult and if something is causing this to happen, I am sure it is not learned behaviour the we do subconsciously and when in groups of other patients this was increased to the extent that it may originate for of chronic condition.
For me it is never painful, and made my dentist think is was him that had caused this to happen on occasion, we now have an understanding and he know it is going to happen not his fault, it does increase when I lie down but with practice it frequency does reduce the more relaxed I try to become over time, I know of no research of explanation so the input for your doctor would be very interesting.
John
DDD.1990 Laminectomy, Failed spine fusion, hartshill rectangle RLS. 3 stents
Pain is inevitable, misery is optional. Sternbach et al
Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
Albert Schweitzer 1953.
“It’s not things that trouble us but the views we take of them” Epitectus
I have had the twitches and the electric shocks also. The twitches were the worst when I was still working and taking methadone. When I laid down in bed my legs would kick involuntarily for a couple minutes. Sometimes my whole body will lurch like I'm levitating right out of the bed.
The electric shocks I have felt mostly in my back, legs and feet. Not painful but scary.
In 1995 I fell from a height of about 10 feet and landed on my butt with my legs outstretched. Crushed T9 into a wedge shape plus undetermined injury to tailbone. Since then have added numb feet, a cyst,arthritis and bone spurs at T9, chronic pain, muscle spasms and nausea, scoliosis, and pins and needles. It hurts if I sit so I stand all day long.