Tremor Feeling in Arms and Legs

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bryanyspencer

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Does anyone get a tremor feeling in there arms and legs constantly that they can't see but can feel? I get this weird feeling like my arms and leg muscles are shaking.
 
24/7 for almost 7 months in my right arm, a few days per week also in the rest of my body, TYPICAL for BFS, look at search function "internal vibration". Not a symptom of ALS,but very common in BFS
 
I am new to this forum and hoping someone can help me. Since the end of the November, I have been awakened with right upper arm and sometimes right leg internal tremors. I have seen many neurologist, a Parkinson's Disease specialist (who said only 10% chance it is Parkinsons). One dr. said it is anxiety, and another said my cervical herniated disc (which is on my left side) and the others said that they just don't know what is going on. I have also had muscle twitches in random spots on both legs and now during the day, I just feel internal quivering pretty much all over. Occasionally my hands will be shaky and sometimes I think I notice my left index finger tremoring slightly. My lips quiver a lot as does the right side of my face and for a long period of time, my right eye twitched to the point where the upper lid now appears to have drooped more than the left. I am a 51 years old woman, clean MRI, blood work taken, including B12, vitamin D and everything is within normal range. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated since the worry over this has taken over my life. My mom died 5 months ago with Parkinsons.
 
Hi Daryl. The biggest plus is that none of this sounds like ALS! The symptoms are happening all over your body all at once, and the things that are happening aren't symptoms of ALS.My lips also quiver from time to time as well as my left leg, and my arm tremors upon awakening when I leave it in an awkward position, like under my head (and leaves my arm quite sore). It's my understanding that this is far more a marker of essential tremors (if it's not just your BFS just acting up) so when I read that I was very reassured.Something that my help you is to ask the next neuro you see about what Parkinsonian tremors look like. My understanding is that they're very coarse, especially in the fingers.Also, have you gone to a chiro or an osteopath yet? At this stage with all your anxiety, your body is probably one giant tense muscle at this point. A few treatments could be very helpful in relieving the consequences of that (trigger points because of stress and tension) on your muscles.Good luck and let us know how you're doing!!
 
Hi Darylderfor me it looks quite interconnected that you have LEFT side cervical disk hernia, affecting probably blood circualtion and blood supply of your LEFT brain hemishere, therefore you have all sensory issues in your RIGHT body part. As far as I understand anathomy of our brain, this is what it should be.When I had significant (over 30%) left side spinal artery bloos circulation deficiency (due to muscle distortion I think) - I had also my RIGHT hand and leg quite affected (numb, cold, swollen, fatigued). I also felt sometimes my right side of the throat was like after small shot of lidocaine - fortunately I do not have those scary symptoms any more for long time (instead I had a pile of new ones :)))))Have you ever had not only brain MRI but a kind of MRI called 3D MRI angiogram for scull and spinal cervical part arteries/veins? it is much more valid than Doppler US and visualise all yur brain blood supply pretty clear.my daughter had that due to her opthalmic migraines and so we ruled out any significant consistent ishemia for her case.maybe that kind of investigation would be helpful for you.
 
I had a bit in my hands... and also a bit in my ... well, lower abdomen, but for the last I rather consider now that this happens when my PC, PC table, foot support and chair make quite specific construction so what I felt was rather my PC buzzing transmitted into my body - because i only feel that sitting at my working table...hands buzzing subsided significntly after vitamine D course (I am not sure whether due to this course or only because they just subsided as is).
 
Don't know how I missed the last couple posts but looking at them now, they are making me feel a bit better. For awhile, the internal vibrations/trembling quieted down and it was great but this last week, it all started up again. I feel like I am not explaining myself correctly to my doctors and it is so frustrating. How do I explain that my upper right arm and bottom of both legs have a fast, invisible, internal trembling that is pretty constant. I know it is not anxiety as I have been living my life without that obsessive worry for the last 3 months. I am so frustrated and feel as if no one can help me. When I read everyone's posts, it sounds like what people have but no doctor has ever diagnosed me with BFS. If they would, I could just accept and move on. On top of all this, since this all started in November, I am certain my upper right eyelid is lower than my left which is the same eyelid that twitches for days at a time only to go away and then return. I can't make this stuff up but I can't get any doctor to understand.
 
Hello,not ALL of our symptoms are caused by stress and anxiety. They play a great role in startup and accompany us for the rest of disease, but partly we really have our nerves (peripherical ones) and probably muscle membranes affected - however not so severe and deadly as in MND. Actually for the lower motor neurons there is no matter what causes their bad conditions - trauma, chronic inflammation with loss of myelin like in MS or rapid and irreversible degradation of the gray matter without obvious inflammatory signs like in ALS (where same aslo is caused for motor parts of the brain). If they suffer, we experiense tremors, pains, strange sensations etc. Well, badly treated ulnar syndrom results in the same loss of grip and atrophy and palsy as ALS for example (the only difference is that palsy is limited by hand and does not kill).Among the factors affecting our conditions we also have hormonal level (those are slightly and regularly changed even in men, not talking about ladies who really live for best part of their lives within huge hormonal clocks), any stress we regard as nothing our hyperexitable nervous system might consider as enough to react with somatic signals etc. Even the food could cause something.as for the eyelid drop, you really might point the doctros on this and ask if it is really prominent enough to be a neurological sign. I know that it is a common symptom, for example, in people after stroke or other ishemic brain conditions (someteils one might have a kind of transient 'stroke' or a micro one). Unilateral sensations as you describe might also point to ishemic conditions, and this is anyway worth to check.good sign anyway is that your conditions are not constant and you have good days as well as bad ones. Do remember that if something had gone once, it could go away again. And please remeber also that we all (not only BFSers) are really prone to listen to our body if something was wrong once... and that we can unintentially overestimate signs and feeleings and this is very common. That's why maybe your doctors could not find anything specific - because they are outside of your body and your nervous system.
 
I have pointed out the droop and they are not concerned so guess that Is a good sign. This whole experience is the most frustrating that I have ever been thru. Not sure I understood your first paragraph? In my favor or not in your opinion? Thanks for taking the time to reply!
 
I meant that even if we are seemingly relaxed we might still have BFS symptoms flareups - this is my opinion, and there are at least two reasons for that, first - it happens because with BFS we still might have certain physical damage of our low (peripherial) or, vice versa, upper (brain located) motor neurons (but not both and not by the same agent, probably a malicious proteine) as occurs in ALS for example, and the second reasonis that BFS ususlly assumes previous or aquired hyperexitability of neuro system and amount of stress to start reaction might be very low, and we just not notice it.So I think it is in our favor still - even if we have sudden flareup, not seemingly realted to anxiety or stress, it is because we have certain rather mild neurological troubles and hyperexited neuro system and not because we are getting apart. However it is a hard time of course.You know, as the example.. yesterday I had to make two 'nervous' visits (to a local clinic to ask for my daughter medical records to be restored (they lost it once!), and to the electrician office to ask for technician to come and do some repairs) - and wof! End of a day and today morning I feel like I was loading a piles of bricks - everything is sore, weak etc, leg and arm pains, hand wobbies etc. etc. In my twenties I need to pass university exams to have enough stress for that reaction, in my fourties a visit to a neglecting official personal is enough... My body now decides what is a stress and what is a nothing, not me :( It is so sad... I am a kind of control freak (as many GAD people are) and the fact I can not control my body stresses me quite a lot, even with the fact I look into this on my speaking therapy...It is good that docs do not regard you eyelid drop as a bad sign or as a sign at all. Believe me, should you have real ptosis (eyelid drop caused by muscle palsy) the neuros would note it and check for the reasons.have a good day (and many of them!)regardsyulia
 
Darylder, I still get this vibrating right upper arm with any relapse. Together with lots of other stuff. My doc prepared me that this is now "here"and might just be coming back now and then,like my whole BFS. Stress and a virus played a part in onset of BFS for me. But now I am not fearing this to be any nasty disease at all and I still get little relapses. It sucks of course. But it is benign and I can control it for a big part with my lifestyle, so wel, I guess it could be worse.
 

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