Muscle spasms?

[Pricilla]

I will continue to post about this and I too hope to hear others' ideas and personal experiences relating to muscle spasms!!

A point of distinction learned from the MS chat groups, spasms refer to a clenching of the muscle, a long term, contraction. Apparently very painful.
I'm using the term spasm very loosely as my muscles are contracting and releasing constantly, in a rhythmic or non rhythmic way. I believe this is referred to as muscle twitches or fasciculations.

I don't want to thread jack, but since you asked I will go for it..

I have twitches as well that I don't understand.
They started after I began the lamictal, so thats my first guess. They are small quick muscle twitches that have occurred all over my body (but not at once of course )
It happens daily and they are not painful.

The biggest and only really powerful one was when I was sitting down in a chair, had my arms crossed, just chilling out talking. All of the sudden I had a muscle twitch,( jerk, whatever you want to call it) in my forearm that sent my arm flying in the air. If I remember correctly my husband had asked me a question around that time and said i was staring blankly, so I don't know about that one. onder:

I have a veeg next month and will be off the meds so I wonder if I will have the twitches during it.

 

[lindsayschu2]

What medications are you on?

 

[AllShookUp]

None so far. Still in the testing phase. No others for any other condition either.
I do take a lot of supplements but nothing outrageous.

 

[AllShookUp]

Oooh Pricilla, the last one sounds like a myoclonic seizure. Maybe we have similar conditions!

I haven't had any obvious seizures for over 40 years, but in doing the research I came to understand that auras are also seizures and I have definitely felt what I explained to my doctor as the precursor to the seizures I remember as a child. I guess I have had at least one in the last few years!

 

[AllShookUp]

OK, I have read about seizure focus. As a child I had petit mals (absence seizures) and grand mals (tonic-clonic), I had the ones in between (simple partials?) that affected the muscles in my cheek/chin. Not sure where in the brain this would affect. Obviously motor control, so you're right it may be related.

 

[StaceS]

Fasculations as you describe seem to be exactly what l have small individual or rolling muscle spazms. I have these very often.
They are not painful, they are not normally very strong. Occassionallly l get a bit of a tug of war feeling in my fingers and calves. Sometimes tho not often l get a very strong jerk that can throw my head back - or across my chest (one almost knocked me backward it was so strong) my husband actually saw that one l was walking into my daughers room where he was. l get what l would describe as a sort of electric tingling/feeling when these fascilations or jerks happen. The big ones sometimes take my breath away....????

 

[AllShookUp]

StaceS, Did the fasciculations begin before or after you started your trial run of epilim?

Yes rolling muscle spasms is a good description. In the beginning of December I began to notice quite a few. Various locations usually legs but sometimes arms, eyelids and even one side of ribs. The sensation in my calves, has moved from distinct fascs to a continual feeling of stiffness and the facs from the rest of the body have almost disappeared. Nothing that has made my limbs jerk with the slight exception of one thumb a few times.

I get electrical tingling too but i don't associate it with the fasciculations. I get the occasional random waves of cool tingling that sweep up my legs, either singly or together.

I would love to hear if you get any relief from these symptoms with continued treatment!

 

[StaceS]

We have some very similar symptoms l will message you