I don’t remember if I’ve already posted this but I’m having this issue. I’ve checked with doctors and they don’t have an answer so I’m just wondering if anybody on here has similar things, because I feel isolated.
So when I’m overloaded I get body spasms or convulses. When I’m generally anxious (severely or all at once) my neck and spine spasm and my head snaps to the right. With OCD my head snaps to the right. When someone touches me and I don’t want it or they surprise me my whole body starts shaking and my neck and back start spazzing or they freeze. When I’m excited/happy is the worst. My whole body starts freaking out and my arms raise and lick up and start swinging around and I just have bad convulses, my whole body jerking around. I’m able to shut it down quickly and I make sure I never let myself get very excited. If I do I make sure I’m by myself.
I’ve had something similar a few years ago with the neck suddenly moving to the right side, actually for years now every few times I change body movements, once my hands move oddly, once a leg, once I even forgot how to walk for a month, my psychologist thinks I also have a tic disorder, But I have read that such movements can be related to schizo, for example my psc is not ready to send me for a neurological examination because she claims to be mental, on the other hand, what is mental? It’s about the brain. I’ve had this for many years, yes when I’m excited or have Anxiety,
but it also happens a lot at home alone, when I enter thoughts and there is a physical reaction to feelings,
So you’re not alone , the doctors do not know what it is, but my doctor said it is not uncommon for this to happen to Scizo
I had similar issues. Yes, for instance, I could be crossing a street at a crosswalk, and one of my calf muscles , or both, would go into a massive cramp. It was so painful that I was basically stuck there in the middle of the road. Once I get to the other side of the road, despite it feeling as though someone had sliced and diced my leg(s) with a machete, the problem goes away. So cramps of this nature would only occur when I am in a dangerous situation. This crosswalk incident occurred several times at the exact same cross walk. It always occurred at night when it was difficult for me to be seen, and each time it felt so painful that I did not scream since the pain went far beyond the screaming level.
Or let’s say I wanted to go and get some beer, the voices disapprove, and as soon as I attempt to walk to exit my apartment, leg muscles would suddenly tie up in and knot, and do so to such an extent that muscles were literally torn. This would have me off my feet for a couple of weeks due to the damage that was done.
Yep. Also for quite a few years, every time I that would just start to go to sleep in bed, the muscles in one of my feet in the arch area of the base of the foot would go into a nasty cramp. These days the tightening of the muscles is only bad enough such that If I un-arch my foot, you will hear a large snap sound. I have to do this many times per night to reduce the pain. It sounds similar to cracking your knuckles.
I had neck twisting in the hospital from risperdal. They gave me benedryl and said it was an allergic type of reaction.
What meds are you on? Anything new? How long has it been going on is something you might want to tell a doc.
Can you control these movements? It almost sounds like TD possibly. Though I am not a doctor. You should definitely consult a physician about that, Could possibly be a lot of things.
I’ve had this kind of cramp. - just a fragment of what’s being described here. It seemed to go along with restless legs syndrome.I started wearing only cotton
with cotton sheets. Flannel sheets or wrinkle free cotton also cause the symptoms… Sometimes certain dyes or corduroy…I haven’t experienced restless legs or the extreme cramping in a long time.
I hear about them working toward medications for restless legs. I wonder if the whole thing is environmental.
I’m on the same meds since 2012, which is Sertaline. Got new depression med a month or so ago for my sleep, barely works. I stopped taking Olanzapine which I’ve been taking for a about a year or so.
The twitching that I’ve noticed was in 7th grade because it was bad. My neck or head would crack when I “twitched” and it would be sore after a spasm because it was so violent. But the earliest memory I can recall of my shivering was when I was around 6. I was being washed by my mom and I start shivering in my spine, and she asked me if I was cold and I said yes because I thought that’s what it was. I just called it tickle shivers. I could control it then, and even make it happen if I wanted. I still can make it happen but it’s very unpleasant for me. When I feel nauseous I get a tickly sensation in my neck similar to the back of my neck and spine when I shiver, if that’s important at all.
As for the excitement… I don’t know what that is. When I was younger I’d get really intense when I was happy, like yelling or running because I got so overly-excited. Since then I would suppress it. Sometimes I’d get really happy and I could feel my nerves getting weird so I’d have to suppress it again. My theory is since I don’t express my happiness, when I shove down the surge of adrenaline it makes my arms freeze and I start spazzing.
I have this. I’ve just learned to accept them. I read somewhere that there’s a way you can control them. All you have to do is “listen”. When you feel that a jerk is on its way, move that body part where you think it’s gonna hit and it won’t spasm. These spasms are mysterious yet fascinating