when i lay down at night within an hour or so, my whole body will jerk violently. just like you hit me with a cattle prod.
my arms and legs go everywhere and i've actually hit my husband.
i almost contort, it's so violent. i may do it once or twice but then it stops.
i don't do it often but when i do, it's pretty bad.
lyme again???
Posted by cordor (Member # 9449) on :
me too. not all the time...but often enough. What IS that??!
Posted by Shahbah (Member # 28735) on :
I think it's bartonella... It creates also deposist on the veins and because when we lay down, the blood flow is less than when we move, we jerk more...
Posted by Carol in PA (Member # 5338) on :
I was just reading something on Wikipedia last night, and saw a mention of hypnic jerk.
Are you asleep when this happens? I have it, but I am awake when it happens, usually when I lay down and try to relax, but my daughter said she notices it when she sleeps with me and I'm sleeping.
My jaw will slam shut without warning, arms flailing, legs jumping, my back jerks. mine seems like it comes from the spine. I can also feel it in my head, like a crunching sound.
Posted by littlebit27 (Member # 24477) on :
I do jerk when I am laying down too, not as violently as you all are describing but I have whole body movements, like huge twitches.
Posted by mbdq (Member # 26277) on :
This has happened to me as well, especially a few days after I start taking a cyst buster.
They can be pretty wild and disconcerting.
Posted by steve1906 (Member # 16206) on :
From the research I've seen and read about, (body jerking), this seems to be completly normal for most people. It may not have anything to do with Lyme.
You should tell your dortor about this, to be on the safe side! Steve
Posted by SmurfyMom (Member # 13688) on :
Have had this symptom for many years now. It has gotten a LOT better in the 2+yr I've been on antibiotics, though. Specifically during the second year.
I also used to have hundreds of mild to moderate single or multiple muscle jerks or twitches each day... anytime I was sitting quietly which was always because I was too fatigued to do anything else.
These got noticeably better...almost 100% gone... with bartonella treatment, which I had during the 2nd year of treatment. The big jerks always seemed like giant forms of the twitches, to me, so I'm going under the presumption that they, too, were/are caused by bartonella.
Interestingly, these giant jerks started quite awhile before the minor ones reached the "all-day long, hundreds of them" stage. I remember having only one or two minor twitches every month or so for years. Then the big jerks started and progressively become more frequent. I'd been having these fairly often (several times a month) before the minor twitches became nonstop.
Unfortunately, my husband just started doing this about a year ago. Methinks my children aren't the only ones I've infected. =(
Posted by Mrs.C (Member # 17775) on :
This used to happen to me on a nightly basis just as I would fall asleep and it would wake me sometimes with my heart racing. Once I started treatment for lyme and co-infections it stopped. Just a few nights ago it happened again and 2 weeks ago my LLMD said my babesia level went up slightly from the month before.
Posted by troutscout (Member # 3121) on :
That was my one of my early symptom....mine was very annoying...every time the sleep signal went thru...it hit me.