I guess that's what you'd call it. I've been having days where I keep getting chills like you get when someone lightly touches your skin. A sort of tingly sensation, but not the same. They start on my scalp and spread down to my shoulders and upper back.
What part of the body controls this? What part of the body is being affected for this to go out of control?
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Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
sorry i don't know but raising you to the top for RNs who have experience galore to share with you good luck.
Posted by Jasmin (Member # 19959) on :
I found this:http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081119185324AAxoVUr
The chills you are referring too are the sudden errie sensation you feel that comes on for no apparent reason and usually is followed by goose bumps ( when the hair raises up your body commonly noticed on your arms legs and the back of your neck)
This chill is a natural reflex of the body and occurs in all mammals. Theres alot of different reason we get these chills and they are usually emotional or can be triggered by sudden changes in the enviroment around you ( sudden breeze blowing by you, an onset of heat such as when you enter a hot tub or warm bath etc)
The reality of it is this sensation is controlled by your ever present limbic system in your brain which dictates how your behave to your environment around you. This includes physiological reactions as well as your emotional reaction to your enviorment (emotional reactions to the senses ..hearing, touch, sight, smell, and taste) You may not even be aware of exactly what is causing you to suddenly shutter since it is not something you can control but is a completely involuntary reaction of the body. In saying that I really think the idea it is caused by someone on some other theorized layer of time walking over your grave is very slight. Source(s): Licensed Internist...
Posted by butterfli (Member # 17186) on :
You know I get these too. But they come only on the days that I'm herxing and its through out my body not just and isolated area. It could be that you are herxing I dont know.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
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Are you taking enough magnesium ?
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Posted by Jasmin (Member # 19959) on :
I've been taking a supplement with 400mg. I think I need a better form of magnesium though. It's magnesium oxide which I have read is poorly absorbed by the body. It was just a cheap walmart buy that I picked up in a hurry when my muscle spasms were getting worse again.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
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Chills, shivering, can be a sign of low magnesium.
I take about 1,000 mg of magnesium a day. You can take it to bowel tolerance. Calcium and zinc, in balance, too.
And GINGER will warm you up. Ginger tea or ginger capsules. Just take some ginger from your cooking spices and make a weak tea, even.
GARLIC, too, will warm you up.
Hope you feel better.
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There is a particular kind of magnesium described here:
Nutritional Supplements in Disseminated Lyme Disease
J.J. Burrascano, Jr., MD (2008)
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Posted by Pinelady (Member # 18524) on :
I just started txmt. and I have had two episodes of
this I think. I felt like someone was touching my
backside, taking their hand from my neck to my
midback. It was so weird. It made me pull away as
if someone was there. Is this what you mean? If
I had to guess it is the nerves in the spine
reacting to the meds.
Posted by Jasmin (Member # 19959) on :
Hi Pinelady,
No, I don't think it's quite like that. That would be scary! It's the sensation that you feel right before you get goosebumps. Chills down your spine is another expression that fits. Mine starts on my head.
The thing is, there is nothing going on to give me this sensation, and it happens quite a bit on some days. No anxiety, no sentimental thoughts, no spooky stories, no touchy feely music.
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good luck.