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Absolutely it can. Muscle twitching = your muscles aren't getting enough oxygen or nutrients or vitamins. Somatization can definitely lead to that if it gets out of control.
 
Definately. In somatisation disorder people also tend to tense up their muscles ( v. dystonia) and this tension makes them freak out. So if you relax those muscles start to fire as if you had done tons of sports (twitching after psysical exertion is also very normal). Combined with the fact that with wrong breathing like hyperventilation your body HAS way enough odygen, but due to the lack of CO2 is cannot be transported properly to the muscles and the alkalicity (is that right word in english, I mean opposite od being acid) increases and this also makes yur muscles twitch. He said basically his patients twitch a lot.
 
Somatoform disorders is the umbrella term used to described; somatisation, conversion disorders, hypochondriasis and body dysmorphic disorder and pain disorders that don't follow an organic pathology. This classification can read in, DSM-1V codes. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. it makes very dull reading, so no need to get hung up on it :D) I think I have it all so I am in good company !! :D)
 
I actually still twitch while asleep.. Had sleep study and the oxygen was fine... Not sure what to think about it all but thx crissi I loved your post gave me a lot to think about .
 
Oxygen is fine here too. Between 97% and 100%, perfect. But my Co2 is way too low (not measured in sleep studies), and that makes it impossible for the oxygen to be transported the right way to muscles. In pulsoxymetrie (what they use in sleep study) they look at the oxygen in your blood, not muscles. Well, I will see how it all turns out. Right at the moment my leg pain is really bad and my arm is vibrating again. I feel I tense it, hubby can actually feel it vibrating too, but I cannot really release it. If I concentrate a lot, I can loosen it for 10 sec or so, damned, I really have no control over it..
 
I am sorry it is so uncomfortable for you at this moment.... There is one thing that sticks in my mind and that is the intensity to understand. Many things in this life we cannot understand. A pain I know. But in some ways I wonder if just reinforcing this stuff in writing about it kind of makes it a well trodden route. If this does have a psychological caused maybe we are not doing ourselves any favours reinforcing it.I am not suggesting it being write or wrong. I am just reflecting on your post. I am giving all you have said some consideration and applying what little I know and that is we learn good or bad behaviours by repartition. I use the word behaviours as intentional and none intention learning.I hope this makes sense. It is late and I am tired! :)
 
Missbehavin just showed me a vid with a stretching to loosen the nerves in legs with tensed up muscles and..damned, it helped!!! I yelled in pain doing the stretches, but now I feel tons better. I guess I am tensing up those muscles myself and then i squeeze that nerve.
 
Chrissi you doctor suggested that you will get even more pain in the future? This doesn't really match some of us on this forum. In my case like similarly to others the pain decreased with time. I do agree with some points he made( big anteans or somitization disorder etc) but I'm not so sure about early Fibromyalgia stage.
 
No he said right now it is a somatisation disorder which might head into Fibromyalgia if I don't find a way to calm my body down. But he said it doesn't necessarily lead to fibro.
 
Ok I just found this old thread of mine and thought I could just bump it up , to give newbies a read of one of the possible reasons for BFS. For me, this was it. I did the therapy and was healed. Another twitcher from here did it with very good results this march, but having little relapses in time of stress etc.The reasons for BFS can be various, but I have a feeling the this applies to a good portion of Twitchers on here.
 
Chrssi, I believe your post nails it quite nicely.For me, my BFS started in my first year of university at what preceded it was not only anxiety but specifically hyperarousal/hypervigilance.I think that "filter" notion is quite true because in addition to the BFS, which was novel to me, I also experienced and continue to experience eye floatersand blue field entoptic phenomena. Normally the brain "filters" this stuff out but as a result of the hyperarousal I became acutely aware of bodily things. Regarding what precedes BFS, I have to agree with those childhood factors and the ideas behind it. I have a choleric father,I stressed over marks since grade 1, I got bullied/excluded growing up, and I was smart for my age (was tested for giftedness)- I thought about things and paid attention to things too much. Suffice to say I didn't have enough or the correct social outlets and I bottled everything up and developed somatic symptoms which drove me and my doctor up the wall. They eventually went way but not before I developed "cholinergic urticaria" (nervous hives) as a result of stressors which really impacted me in high school. I hope I do find away to mediate my mind-body connection before I develop some really serious issues (BFS is a warning sign - I agree with you there Chrssi). My grade 10 math teacher said I would die a young man (if I don't chill).It will be a challenge surely, as I'm still in university and the work is getting tougher and social pressures are always around. I hope I can train myself and correct my "filters." God and nature bless.
 
Regarding " floaters " in young people : they can be a thing of over- perception. I remember well my first weeks in the lab when I was starting with microscopy class: all those young people trying to constantly wipe their lenses ans slides because there were " things" and " worms" and stuff floating around in the vision field. Our Prof told is this is due to the extreme concentration and increase of any perception because we are searching too much for the " object of desire" on the slide, and that this is actually stuff within our eyes that we can see there. He predicted we will loose this pnce we get more relaxed watching through the microscope, and so it happened. Funny enough, we were all able to reproduce the floaters without microscopes watching into the bright sky and then back to a normal surface with our " microskope view" ( extreme concentration and searching for a focus, hard to describe the way you adjust your eyes if you do microscopy). So there must be a different kind of floaters that is caused by our perception.Haha PuppetPup you did not ruin this thread. I love talking about floaters. I had pretty nice ones during my lab days and they caused us lots of fun in the lab when we were supervising the newbies calling us for help " I think there's an ameba swimming around on my liver slice slide...a big one. No, two, no wait , here it is... Gone.oh here..Back...watch......... Why can't you see it????"
 
Yeah they even have an eye floater simulator en the internet, funny. When I am driving and look out at my left hand mirror and then back at the road, mine zoom across my vision. I have to look up and to the right to clear them. They are me, I am them, It's a love hate thing. Most of the time I ignore them.Its my strong German ancestry. We have good eye protein.
 

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