About three weeks ago, out of the blue, I woke up feeling like I just had a fight or flight attack: I felt an all over body tremor, mostly in my arms...The sort of a feeling one gets when there is tonnes of adrenalin shooting through the system, or one is super low on blood sugar...The tremors felt internal, as in, I couldn't actually see them, but my hand movements were impaired, texting was very difficult, and my fingers felt as if they flew about exaggeratedly when typing...Soon my legs joined with all those symptoms, and started to feel weak-ish (again, as they do when shaking with adrenalin), I feet a bit clumsy, un-coordinated, off balance (leaned unexpectedly into a few walls)...And here and there I would get a rather pleasant floating/dizzy sensation in my head...All this lasted for a few days, and over the last three weeks whittled down to constant leg muscle tensing (not twitching, just as if I have a TENS machine attached to my thigh muscles, they just vibrate and tense and relax, tense and relax, drives me nuts when I lie in bed)...Still a bit clumsy, my finger movements still feel a bit exaggerated and shaky...There's the odd standard muscle twitch here and there, but I wouldn't say that is the main symptom.I am 28 years old, female.The GP cheerfully said it all sounds very bizarre and to come back in a few weeks if it doesn't go away...Done the basic bloods, done thyroid, done auto-immune/inflammation thingamabobbers, done lyme (even though the tests for lyme are a joke)...All fine (well, I unfortunately do have antibodies against my thyroid, but they didn't seem to have attacked just yet).Of course I am now nervous about Multiple Sclerosis.Any chance the vibration/tensing could be considered a muscle twitch? Pretty please? Cause I would much rather have BFS than MS, surprisingly enough...Thanks for taking the time to read all this!
Frightening Internal Tremors Experienced
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MarioMasher
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Of course it could be. Almost all of us have or have had vibrating and buzzing at some point or another. My early symptoms of BFS sound exactly like what you are describing (I leaned/bumped into many walls at the start). I asked my neuro, "Could this be an MS attack?" and he said "No, an MS attack would be more like 'My legs have been numb for six months and I can barely feel them."There are a lot of theories around here that the buzzing is just very fine, very fast muscle twitches. I dunno. Makes sense to me. But that's a pretty common symptom around these parts.The "I woke up feeling like I had a fight or flight attack" could not sound more like BFS.
Yaaaay! Thank you! 
Well, ok, I failed to mention another thing that initially made me think of MS: a few times before this episode, I've had a strange sensation as if I can't speak properly, like it was an extra effort, as in, if I don't concentrate really hard on moving my tongue and lips right, I would slur, or say the words all mixed up...as if it didn't come naturally...I don't think I actually end up slurring, but it is a very odd sensation...This happened a few times...I understand that this can also occur with anxiety etc (my god, anxiety is a strange thing, I swear I never feel stressed before I get any of these symptoms)...Quick question: when I put weight on my arm, for example, it starts vibrating much worse, visibly...Is this also common for BFS? And given "muscle weakness" seems to be such an important aspect of diagnosing anything "serious", how do we test that? Or can it only be tested by a doctor?
Well, ok, I failed to mention another thing that initially made me think of MS: a few times before this episode, I've had a strange sensation as if I can't speak properly, like it was an extra effort, as in, if I don't concentrate really hard on moving my tongue and lips right, I would slur, or say the words all mixed up...as if it didn't come naturally...I don't think I actually end up slurring, but it is a very odd sensation...This happened a few times...I understand that this can also occur with anxiety etc (my god, anxiety is a strange thing, I swear I never feel stressed before I get any of these symptoms)...Quick question: when I put weight on my arm, for example, it starts vibrating much worse, visibly...Is this also common for BFS? And given "muscle weakness" seems to be such an important aspect of diagnosing anything "serious", how do we test that? Or can it only be tested by a doctor?angusglover
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I have had the buzzing (still got it), the tremors (still got them too..), aches, pains, shakes, feelings of uncoordination, twitches, weakness (perceived mainly) and I am still here. I have been having this since Sept \ Oct 2007.....Stay Well.....
The speech thing can also be a part of BFS?? You are my god. *sigh* See, I knew about the big things, like the twitches (which I wasn't sure I had), spasms, tingling, numbness etc, but I didn't come across the speech thing before...Now it all seems to be coming together.I guess I can now tell my freaked out family and friends that I might not have MS after all. 
)Well, with all the vibrating I seem to be doing, I might as well put it to good use: surely I am producing enough energy to supply a small country with electricity...Thanks again! p.s. darn, one last question for ya, I promise, I promise, last one: the clumsiness, when it is bad, I tend to find it difficult to coordinate my fingers/hands and dropped a thing or two, slipped madly through my hands (in a shop, in front of a long line of people, it was all very awkward)...BFS? Or back to MS? 
)Well, with all the vibrating I seem to be doing, I might as well put it to good use: surely I am producing enough energy to supply a small country with electricity...Thanks again! p.s. darn, one last question for ya, I promise, I promise, last one: the clumsiness, when it is bad, I tend to find it difficult to coordinate my fingers/hands and dropped a thing or two, slipped madly through my hands (in a shop, in front of a long line of people, it was all very awkward)...BFS? Or back to MS? MarioMasher
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Well the only person who can rule out MS for sure is a doctor. But I will say that hundreds of people on this board have had the exact same symptoms, and almost all of us have been laughed out of our neurologists' office for even suggesting we had MS. My doctor looked at me like he thought I was crazy.Have you had a full checkup and MRI with a neurologist? That will tell you pretty much all you need to know.I really can't even remember one person who has actually been disgnosed with MS around here. Lots of us THOUGHT we had it...
If you have TPO antibodies you do have thyroid disease. This is the marker for hashimotos. They are likely attacking your thyroid, but maybe your thyroid panel isn't showing it yet. My twitching started 3 months before I was diagnosed with hashi's. I would bet your symptoms are thyroid related.Linda
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Hey Angry_Kitty,I do not think that adrenaline rushes are typical for serious neuro diseases, especially if the doctors don't suspect anything. The shaking is of course caused by the adrenaline level, not from nerve damage or something. What about your pulse and blood pressure? If you have a high pulse at rest and maybe even palpitations during your adrenaline rush, it MIGHT have to do with a thyroid disease, as LindaJ said, but not necessarily... I have some symptoms of some sort of thyroid gland disease (sweating a lot, slightly high pulse and blood pressure, anxiety, a bit shaky hands, panic attacks, and the thyroid gland is asysmetrical), but the biochemical analysis of my blood was fine. Actually, adrenaline rushes can be caused by anxiety and an overactive nervous system, without any obvious physical disorders... Seems to be my case.
*sigh*I was suspecting that myself, too...Doctors are so stubborn when it comes to thyroid disease, they just seem to concentrate on the simple bloods, even though thyroid issues are notoriously hard to pin down that way early on...I shall just have to keep on top of it...I am guessing my symptoms are probably a combo of thyroid, BFS and anxiety...What came first, who knows...Interestingly enough, Hashimoto's can begin as symptoms of hyper (since I always associated tremor etc with hyper), and then plunge into hypo...I've even read that some people, the moment they are diagnosed with auto-antibodies start taking meds, regardless of other bloods...(but I have no idea how they decide which meds to take, cause both hypo and hyper are usually caused by auto-immune antibodies, how can one predict which way it will damage the thyroid, as in, end up hypothyroid or hyperthyroid?)...