I just realised recently that my twitching all but vanished and the buzzing almost completely stopped when I switched from working on my laptop (always sitting on my legs) to a desktop computer. I wonder if the electric stuff sitting a pulsating on your body could contribute. I know it sounds far fetched... but worth asking. I know all of us spend time on computers because we've all done the google-our-symptoms-to-death thing. Try it out!
Electric Pulsations and Twitching - Worth Asking?
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Onewaylife4u2
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That's actually funny. While I really don't think it causes BFS, I have noticed that ever since my health anxieties have begun that I've always used a laptop. I used to lay on my back on my bed for hours, and hours with my laptop on my chest and "Google." While this was after my twitching and other symptoms started, I did notice other things that it did seem to contribute to, such as headaches, eye headaches, stiff neck, painful neck, and fatigue. 
Who knows
Who knows what got me thinking along those lines is I had a flair for a couple of weeks which happened to coinside with taking over the laptop for the song projection at church on Sunday mornings, nights and wednesday. As soon as I stopped it stopped. I get mainly buzzing in my legs.... which I've ALWAYS described as feeling like electricity. The randomness of the twitches all over the body always made me feel like it was something in my main body's circuit being off. And that's not entirely impossible because they use little electric emitters implanted in people's brain to regulate seizures in some epilepsy cases. I knoww one girl who has hundreds of small seizures a day and they figured out that this electrical chip which would shock her slightly corrected it. Interesting thoughts.
charlielover
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Heres my thoughts on this- the laptops probably do indeed spark off some nerve sensations/twitches, just as other things can also act as a catalyst- What I mean is , I have noted that my twitches can be caused by various little catalysts- Looking up and down on the regular computer will cause eye twitches, sitting on my feet triggers buzzing or pins feeling -(not the kind that goes away after standing.) It is as if our bodies remember a senasation and replay it even when the antagonist is removed. Sort of like being super sensitive or super reactive.
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Although I own a laptop I haven't used it in years - the battery doesn't hold a charge anymore.
I would not discount this theory for some, though - have you ever set your cell phone next to your computer screen and watched the "interference" on the screen when the phone rings? Weird. Hard to think we would not pick up on that signal somehow.
I would not discount this theory for some, though - have you ever set your cell phone next to your computer screen and watched the "interference" on the screen when the phone rings? Weird. Hard to think we would not pick up on that signal somehow.