Twitching During Sleep: Anxiety or Normal?

[BrightKnight]

Hey all,I've noticed that when I'm drifting off to sleep I don't think I'm twitching anymore.Also, when I wake up in the morning, it takes about an hour for the twitches to kick in.So, I'm thinking I probably don't twitch in my sleep and this is mostly anxiety related?

 

[BarbiePetals]

I don't twitch that much when drifting off to sleep but I know I twitch during sleep because I often wake up and feel them. When I get up in the morning I usually don't feel them until I move then they go off like fireworks. Mornings are the worst for me.

 

[seadragonsovereign]

Since I started with this, my sleeping patterns have not been impacted as far as I can tell. I fall asleep easily enough, though I can feel the twitching. I don't know if they are twitching when sleeping, but almost immediately upon waking up they begin anew, even without me thinking anything about them. This tells me that anxiety is NOT the underlying cause, though it certainly seems to make things worse.

 

[Krackersones]

I think you are the best judge of whether your symptoms are anxiety related. I certainly hope they are! In my mind, if you think anxiety could be a cause it likely is. This is different than thinking anxiety makes things worse. I know anxiety does not cause my twitching because of the suddenness of how they hit me and their widespread nature. Anxiety may have done something to my immune system to make me more vulnerable to the more direct cause and it may exacerbate the symptoms but it is not the sole cause at least for me. If your twitching is the type you mostly feel rather than ever see or a type that is similar in sensation to what you feel when you have been really nervous in the past (years before you came here), you may be experiencing something different than fasciculations.

 

[SparkySunshine97]

Yer I'm with you. When I get into bed I feel a few small twitches in my calves. But when I'm asleep and just coming into consciousness I feel nothing. It's only once I'm fully awake that I start to feel some twitching.

 

[sjventures67]

Over the last week i noticed that when i first wake i cannot feel the twitches but as soon as my brain becomes more alert,off they go with a vengance and then dont stop.I get them all over but mostl in my legs and they ache like hell but not to the point i cant walk.

 

[journeyer80]

I do both when I wake up sometimes they are not there and other times they are there already

 

[AussieSurvivor]

Drifting off .Twitches were bad in legs, but have since settled. They are there but take no notice of them- not bad. Waking up- nothing until I get moving. With the anxiety thing. I believe chronic anxiety has set up me for a hyper sensitive nervous system. And once that happens anything sets it off, the slightest anxiety or even events that dont induce anxiety. Once it is hyped it stays hyped ie twitching ALWAYS there, but intensity and position varies depending on circumstasnce. Little is needed to set it off big time.If I get seriously anxious or stressed./worried my twitching goes wild. That's my theory anyway. Contol the anxiety, control the BFScheersRodger