Myoclunus in BFS/Anxiety?

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Personally I don't think it has anything to do with either of them. I had myoclonus jerks decades before I ever got BFS. Lots of people have them. Some people consider them to be just a natural part of the process of falling asleep.
 
it is very normal to have limb jerking at the ridge of sleep (when you are falling asleep and boom! you legs (usually) are moving). Most of healthy people have it. It is called physiological myoclonus and in fact it is a part of normal sleeping process. If that is exaggerated (like you have that every day, or massive etc.)- it usually means you live a hard life and have your sleep impaired.
 
i understandd to jerk before going to sleep. however, is it normal to have it during everyday activities? like sitting at your home surfing the internet?
 
for BFS it is nothing unusual, i would say. Surf the site, and there would be many people with involutary jerks here. I had it only in the fingers, but there are fellow BFSers with limb jerks too.
 
marbito11 - I have experienced the same thing. Is it BFS? Anxiety? A different benign phenomena? Or something sinister? I could not tell you because I don't know. (But naturally, like you, I do worry about it.)I don't notice it significantly during normal daytime activities, although I do experience jerks subtly at times when sitting still. What I notice most is in bed, and it doesn't happen only when falling asleep. Just laying in bed resting while totally conscious, my thighs, shoulders, ankles, wrists, fingers, or even neck will occasionally jerk/move. Strangely, it seems to wax and wane in a sine wave type of pattern of about a week or two. E.G, it will basically go away for 5-7 days, then reappear for a few days, become really bad for a few days, then decrease again to almost nothing. It's been going on like this for 5-6 months. Sorry I can't provide a definitive insight into the cause of your issue, but be assured that you are not the only one on this board experiencing this!
 
I have myoclonic jerks a lot, but by far not as many as in the early days of my BFS. I also have tons of limb jerks and finger tapping jerks while I am awake, although this also diminished a lot. This is a sign for a hyperexciteable and hyperreagible (does that word exist in english??) nerve system, as typical for BFS. Over all you should find this reassuring beause this is not part of any mean disease BFSers are afraid of, but quite common for BFS.
 
I am getting a ton of limb jerks in my legs lately. Mostly when I am sitting still watching TV or surfing the internet. It's not just when I am sleeping.
 
To add some background to my earlier responses -- I have had myoclonic-type jerks recently, but in addition to (undiagnosed) BFS and (diagnosed) anxiety, which could cause such a symptom, I am currently on an SSRI, and those are known to cause or exacerbate such issues. I did experience some jerks before starting the SSRI 3 months ago. However, I think the Rx may be amplifying the issue somewhat, in my case.To marbito11: if you are on any medications, you may want to consider that as possible explanation for your situation, too.I hope this helps.
 
In the first 6 months of BFS, I had really bad limb jerks. I would get them at night as I tried to fall asleep and also got them in the early morning hours if I woke up at 5AM and tried to fall back. Now (after 15 months of BFS), I hardly get any limb jerks anymore but I do get a very frequent jaw jerk while sleeping. I bite my tongue all the time in my sleep. I wake up many nights to sharp pains in my tongue because I just bit it. Uggggghhh.-Matt
 
For me the BFS and myoclonus started almost simultaneously, and I got them exactly how Matt described.....as I tried to fall asleep and also sometimes in the early morning hours if I woke up too early. Until I read this board, I had never associated the 2, and neither did my neurologist. My neuro told me night time myclonus was very common but I was still kinda confused why it started up so bad for me right at that time. I hardly ever get the myoclonus anymore, just randomly here and there, and it is very mild compared to what I used to get. As a new member here, I found it very reassuring to see how many people got this as well, and that it is just another BFS thing:)Misty
 

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