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November 5, 2009 - 2:30am
"Falling" sensation and legs jerking waking me up.
You know those dreams where you fall and you wake up with your heart pounding.
Its happening to me very frequently, and I don't recall a dream. Sometimes it happens several times a night.
I also experience my leg jerking and waking me up. This happens in the middle of the day while I'm fully awake too.
Once in awhile I take an ambien for sleep, and it doesn't seem to stop these things.
anyone going through anything similar?
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its called myoclonic jerks /{IT WONT HARM YOU}
STRAKER
2010 just had a discography and now waiting for an ALIF open fusion {360 degree}
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Communicate you for distribution? Is that even english". Sounds like something 1 would get from a chinese distributer,
L4 L5 disc replacement in 2004=causing nerve damage'Flexicore disc. 2006 fusion same level leaving adr in. Fusion did nothing to releive the nerve pain.Pain clinic=every injection procedure avalable inc,razadamy, ablation, nerve stimulater trial,morphine pump trial all failed. Pain can be described as burning pain in lower spine penetrating in to left buttock,down left leg. Refuse to take lyrica or nuorontin do to its side effect,Leaving me with norco,valume,and flexiril at night.Which these medications only help with the muscle aches and stiffnes does nothing for the nerve pain from the nerve damage sustained from the adr surgery.Coming up nov.19th 2009 Lami, and hardware removal from fusion,for hardware just causing more pain in other areas.Hardware block comfirmed hardware is also causing pain in diferent area aside from the severe nerve pain on left side.Emg showed some posible problem above surgery are at L3 L4.
Wth? No offense but are we now getting spammed from foreign computers?Or did they just mess up your meds. Go to the er cause I think your having a stroke.
L4-5 flexicore artificial discs . Continued nerve pain in leg and spasms.
its called myoclonic jerks /{IT WONT HARM YOU}
STRAKER
2010 just had a discography and now waiting for an ALIF open fusion {360 degree}
Straker's totally right. And while they are annoying they're basically harmless, though they can be be a sign of neurological problems. I had them many times a day/night prior to my fusion surgery. Which makes sense given that my nerves/spinal cord were being squished. But within a week of my surgery they had all but stopped. Now it only happens occasionally as I'm falling asleep, which is totally normal. Given your spinal issues, I'd say it's pretty normal.
Herniations at L4/5 & L5/S1 – severe stenosis, thecal sac impression, sciatica/radiculopathy. Surgery- October 5, 2009 – Open TLIF w/hardware L4-S1 (6 screws, 2 rods, cages, allograft and bone marrow). Better and stronger every day and pain (AND MED) free!
Anyways.... Yeah, I have them all the time. In fact, they are so frequent when I start to go to sleep, that I can actually time them. Just starting to drift, and in the back of my mind, OK, here comes the right shoulder....ah, there it is.
Now, that being said and actually being rather intrigued by them, I have had some that are so violent that I have woken my wife out of a dead sleep with them, and in two separate cases, almost fallen out of bed.
I restarted Gabapentin (Neurontin) recently and have noticed a marked increase and strength increase of the "spasm". I don't know if that is to e expected, but oh well. So long as it does not do that to my heart or bladder ;-P
Best Wirshes,
Sean
Disabled Veteran with multiple fusions, treatments, and drugs.
When this happens to me, I realize that I was not properly relaxed. As I fall asleep, my muscles relax some, and that causes the sense falling.
Relaxing your muscles when you are laying down is very important to the resting and healing process.
Could this be the case with you?
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