Body Twitching - Increasing Stress?

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DoodlesyToodles

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Hello, this is my first post, i stumbled across this website while searching body twitching.

I've had twitching all over my body for about a week now. My arms, legs, neck, torso, everything. Its probably once every 2 or 3 minutes at different sporadic spots on my body. I've been under increased stress recently, but have never had anything like this before.

I had an mri of my brain done about 2 months ago relating to migraines that I get. Everything came back normal.

I also had some sort of Electric shock test where they had me strain my teeth very tight and then shocked my jaw and measured my strength of my jaw. This also was I guess related to my migraines. That came back ok as well.

I've had chronic pain in my right neck for a few years now, and I also have a crick in my neck at this location when i turn my head. I saw a chiropractor a ittle over a year ago for the neck and it seemed to help a bit.

I've also had extremely sensitive ears for about 6 months. Sometimes when someone is talking to me, my ears rumble inside. When they stop, it stops. I've been to an ENT two times and my hearing is perfect and my inner ear looks fine.

I've also had shooting pain in my ears from time to time over the last few weeks.


As you can see there are a few things adding up to make me really worried about my health. I was reading about different causes of the twitching because this one really freaks me out. Could it be stress related? Could I have BFS?

ANY information could be very helpful, i'm really worried about this.

Thanks so much.
 
Hello again. The last two nights now i've had a sharp pain shoot up my neck, one night it was once on the right and the other night once on the left. Could I perhaps have a pinched nerve that is causing some of these problems? I've also had a headache almost every evening this week. Any info would be great, i'm going to a neurologist in over a week but in the mean time its driving me crazy. :(
 
could very well be a pinched nerve. ask neuro about that. i think you will be fine. sleep well and take care. come back if u have any questions. the people on this site are the best u will ever find. :)
 
Hi Kbop,

Welcome to the site, and lucky for you you did stumble across us here and didn't go the same route as many and Googled twitching only to find ALS sites! very scary and completely on the wrong track.

Yes you're right, body wide twitching= BFS, and that almost certainly sounds like what you have. The neck problem might be connected but it might be a seperate issue. There are so many things that seem to accompany BFS it's easy to blame every ache or pain on it.

I get neck problems too but I think is due to whiplash from car wreck I was in. Since then, on the left side of my neck where it joins my head can get very painful, sore and sometimes makes a horrible cracking sound, and can be aggrivated resting my head on a pillow that's too high.

As for the ear thing, I can relate to that too, I have got tinnitus which sounds like a low pitched humming sound, and when it seems particularly bad I'm also very sensitive to sound and peoples voices make my ear drums thump with every word.

When my twitching first started I seemed sensitive to everything though, noise, smell and vibration.

BFS is a game of two halves. The first half being the fear you have some terrible disease and then accepting you are actually just suffering from a very annoying disorder, and the second half is realising what a pain in the rear BFS is but at the same time realising it's not going to kill you and it could've been worse.

It might be worth tring to get to the bottom of what's going on with your neck, it sounds like it could be some nerve damage/ trapped nerve. Your neurologist might be able to shed some light on that one.

Stress certainly seems to highten BFS symptoms although personally I don't believe it is the actual cause.
 
Thank you for your replies Morris_M and Klag, I appreciate it.


Its good to hear from someone else who has ear pain like I do. Do you also have shooting pain sometimes in your ear, more sharp as opposed to the eardrum rumbling that you hear when someone speaks to you? Mine lasts only a few seconds.

Thanks again.
 
Hi bkopp,
I can't remember pains in the ears like you describe but as I do get lots of sharp jabbing pains in all sorts of places if it happens I'll let you now! :)
 
I have ear pain off and on... it more like a shooting pain... I've also been experiencing vertigo a lot lately and that is really scaring me...
 

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