First Intense Twitching Experience

[BuddyJim]

I guess I just experienced my first intense "hot spot" of twitching since this all started about 5 months ago. Although I have some minor hot-spots in my thighs and calves, I never experienced twitching like what happened to me this weekend. 4 days ago I started having constant, nonstop twitching in my left tricep or deltoid muscle. It was very bad, constant and did not let up for almost the whole 4 days. Up to then my twitching was intermittent and sporadic. However, this really scared me because it was constant in the same muscle. Since I have a c5 pinched nerve on that side I thought perhaps it might be more than just the BFS causing it. It was so intense it scared me to death, in the past my hot spots would only last at most a couple of days, but this time it was 4 days without stopping. This morning when I woke up it was gone. The muscles feel sore and achy presumably from the constant twitching.What in the world causes these hot-spots and these intense episodes? Does anyone have similar experiences where the hot-spots lasts for days?Jim

 

[yanyytypeyofyuserna]

Hi, Jim...I've had very similar experiences. I recently developed a very intense hot spot in my right shoulder and arm muscles. I've watched my right triceps go non-stop for days at a time. I, too have some disc issues in my cervical spine, but my neurologist doesn't think that this is the cause of my twitching. I don't know what causes this. Neither do the neurologists that I've seen. It's annoying as hell and often frightening, for sure. However, all of my doctors tell me it's benign.Cheers!John

 

[TwitchyBoomer]

Count me among those with cervical disc degeneration, along with lumbar. My main problem is at c5-c6 and docs also don't seem to think it is of concern, ie no remarkable stenosis or severe nerve root impingement. I also have loss of cervical lordosis (natural curvature) which seems to have caused a narrowing of my spinal canal which I believe is setting me up for problems. If I have my head propped up on a pillow at the wrong angle both my hands go numb starting from pinky side. I also have had leg symptoms like hyperreflexia and spasticity. My thinking is that peripheral nerve hyperexcitability (BFS) exacerbates symptoms from spinal disc degeneration (radiculopathy, paresthesia and myelopathy). Just something I am living with now and no longer worrying I was dying from. Mark