electricgirl
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Hi,
I haven’t been through this entire – excellent -- site yet so someone else may have already addressed the issues I’m about to address in this post.
For several months prior to my noticing BFS/tremor symptoms, I began to suffer from insomnia (something I have virtually no history of). I not only could not fall asleep easily but would regularly awaken about three hours earlier than planned and be unable to return to sleep. Again, there were no perceivable BFS symptoms causing me to awaken.
Also, my own “style” of BFS causes me to have electrical-like “buzzing” tremors throughout my body. They occur when going to bed (this is no longer a problem since I began taking a prescribed dose of 0.5 mg of Clonazepam). The tremors “start up” again in the early morning and awaken me but I ignore them and typically fall back to sleep (I prefer not to take a “morning dose” of Clonazepam even though my neurologist recommended it). I find it odd that these tremors start up at about the same time that I used to wake up early when there were no tremors. When I awaken the tremors are often accompanied by a rather loud “buzzing” or “crackling” sound “in my head” (or some would probably say “in my ears” as in, “ringing in [one’s] ears.” I know this sounds weird, but I had seen another site unrelated to BFS which described such mental “sounds in one’s ears or head” as normal in the period between sleep and wakefulness. I definitley find such phenomena more pronounced when tremors are most intense.
The bottom line in all my rambling is; have others experienced similar correlations with sleep disturbance that preceded the onset of BFS symptoms, and have doctors noted any relationship of BFS to a disturbed sleep cycle (again, before the onset of symptoms – which obviously disturb sleep)?
Regarding BFS’s association with sinus infections, I thought I just had really bad allergies for the last several years. I had serious allergy symptoms (sneezing, runny nose, watery eyes) for most of the year and took over the counter allergy medicine constantly (which I realized could have actually been a factor in my now having BFS). I’ve noticed that since the onset of BFS I’ve had virtually no allergy symptoms! (Only a brief minor bout during hay fever season – not more than a week). I’m thinking that maybe the “allergy” that I thought I had all these years was actually a chronic “sinus infection” and it was a precursor to my present BFS condition. I have to also consider the possibility that my excessive use of allergy medicine could have brought on the BFS symptoms.
Ain't this one weird malady?
-- Cliff
I haven’t been through this entire – excellent -- site yet so someone else may have already addressed the issues I’m about to address in this post.
For several months prior to my noticing BFS/tremor symptoms, I began to suffer from insomnia (something I have virtually no history of). I not only could not fall asleep easily but would regularly awaken about three hours earlier than planned and be unable to return to sleep. Again, there were no perceivable BFS symptoms causing me to awaken.
Also, my own “style” of BFS causes me to have electrical-like “buzzing” tremors throughout my body. They occur when going to bed (this is no longer a problem since I began taking a prescribed dose of 0.5 mg of Clonazepam). The tremors “start up” again in the early morning and awaken me but I ignore them and typically fall back to sleep (I prefer not to take a “morning dose” of Clonazepam even though my neurologist recommended it). I find it odd that these tremors start up at about the same time that I used to wake up early when there were no tremors. When I awaken the tremors are often accompanied by a rather loud “buzzing” or “crackling” sound “in my head” (or some would probably say “in my ears” as in, “ringing in [one’s] ears.” I know this sounds weird, but I had seen another site unrelated to BFS which described such mental “sounds in one’s ears or head” as normal in the period between sleep and wakefulness. I definitley find such phenomena more pronounced when tremors are most intense.
The bottom line in all my rambling is; have others experienced similar correlations with sleep disturbance that preceded the onset of BFS symptoms, and have doctors noted any relationship of BFS to a disturbed sleep cycle (again, before the onset of symptoms – which obviously disturb sleep)?
Regarding BFS’s association with sinus infections, I thought I just had really bad allergies for the last several years. I had serious allergy symptoms (sneezing, runny nose, watery eyes) for most of the year and took over the counter allergy medicine constantly (which I realized could have actually been a factor in my now having BFS). I’ve noticed that since the onset of BFS I’ve had virtually no allergy symptoms! (Only a brief minor bout during hay fever season – not more than a week). I’m thinking that maybe the “allergy” that I thought I had all these years was actually a chronic “sinus infection” and it was a precursor to my present BFS condition. I have to also consider the possibility that my excessive use of allergy medicine could have brought on the BFS symptoms.
Ain't this one weird malady?
-- Cliff
. My funky arm pain started. Then I got poison ivy and took benadryl. Twitches began.
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