I've noticed that certain symptoms of mine are worse when I'm asleep! Does this happen to anyone else?
The two biggies are internal vibration & tingling in my fingers / toes.
Sometimes i'll wake up during the night and it feels like i'm shaking /trembling / vibrating. I have a fainter sense of this during the day, but at night it's in full force.
Also, about once a week I'll wake up & some of my fingers or toes will be tingling or have pins & needles. It lasts for about a minute then goes away. This was one of my first Lyme symptoms too.
Does anyone know why sleep brings out these symptoms? What can i do to get rid of 'em - and no, staying awake isn't an option
thanks! thursday
Posted by alliebridge (Member # 9103) on :
I've noticed that these same symptoms are worse for me when I am overly tired. And I too, feel them more in bed, before falling asleep or awakening in the night.
I often wondered whether I just felt it more in bed because I didn't have the distractions of the day. But then when I would keep myself awake during the day, rather than take a nap (sometimes you just have to), I did notice that these symptoms got worse.
I came to realize that these symptoms worsen under all kinds of stress (being overly tired physically, is one kind stress to your body).
Posted by peter j (Member # 11825) on :
I used to be worse at night. I'm not anymore. Don't know why.
Posted by Jill E. (Member # 9121) on :
My presumed Bartonella symptoms - myoclonus, tremors,tingling, vibration, shaking - are all worse as I rest, fall asleep, sleep and wake up. My only theory is that my autonomic nervous system is so out-of-whack from these infections and is in overdrive (my LLMD agrees it's in overdrive, too), that it's even more noticeable when I try to rest.
I've also had my cortisol tested and it skyrockets late at night, so that may be contributing. One of my LLMDs said I have a classic fibromyalgia cortisol pattern - too low in the morning, way too high late at night.
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