Shaking

[Kimbosuki5]

Does anyone ever wake up feeling like your whole body is shaking and heart is racing and feel the pulse super strong in neck ??? It's mainly when up wake up from a nap or in the middle of the night. I feel like my body has an earthquake inside it. And the thing is, I'm not even feeling anxious before it happens . I'm so afraid it's MS

[Lorcabella]

I do it, mostly after a nap, as you describe. Sometimes it wakes me in the middle of the night, or I have it on waking in the morning. I've done it for years, and my doctor assures me it's "just" anxiety.

You really don't need to be afraid of MS; my husband has it and we manage a support group. Nobody I know with MS has these symptoms. Believe me, I asked! I hope you feel a little more at ease. You aren't alone.

All the best.

[yezi]

Hi,

This is a common symptom of anxiety. I used to wake up feeling like this very often when my anxiety was high. I didn't even have to feel anxious prior to falling asleep, it's like an after effect or like a build up of stress for me throughtout the week. For me, I felt like it was due to exhaustion and even though I might not feel it, the body can respond like this. Best thing I found is not to think about it when it happens as worrying about the tremors then stresses you out about your health. It helped me control it over time, the less emphasis I put on it.

Hope this helps.

[es27]

Extract from a book i am reading.

As you prepare for flight or fight your muscles tense . With no physical exertion this tension lingers too long and as a result of the adrenaline in your system you may feel your legs start to shake or eveb witness your entire body shake like a leaf

DARE by Barry Mcdonagh

Six pounds ish on amazon

Take care

[Hidden]

Hi. I don't know exactly what is happening with you but I do know that is very possible you have had a difficult experience or trauma that you don't want to feel consciously but comes out subconsciously ie when sleeping. I have symptoms which are different but also physical and difficult. You are doing the right thing by sharing your experience here. If you can also share it with others in your life who might be able to help, it would be a good step.

[Lorie]

Oh yes, if I take a nap in the day, and also at night. Also my legs jump at night. I know legs jumping at night can be caused by other things, but it only seems to happen when my friend anxiety makes an appearance. Hope things improve for you soon

[Neonlady01]

I'm always shaking inside I can't figure it out n my heart races

[Allyson1]

Yes, absolutely, for years. And anxiety was not the origin in my opinion. I know anxiety can cause physical symptoms, but honestly, I think that excuse is given too readily by doctors. It seems to me that anxiety symptoms are usually pretty transitory. If the anxiety lifts (like when you're asleep) then symptoms should too it seems to me.

When I was in my teens it was a strong, fast buzzing or vibration-like feeling from the hips down. It felt like my legs were jiggling in all directions at once, sometimes it felt like they were floating.

It would occur mostly when I was on my back. Sometimes it would happen as I drifted off; other times it would wake me. It felt so much like an earthquake I would turn on the lights to check.

In my late 20s, it got worse. It started in my midback just below my ribs, then spread out to my whole body. Again, it would occur while drifting off and also wake me several times a night. It was so strong it did feel like an earthquake. It was usually accompanied by racing heart and sometimes sweats.

It also began happening during the day, especially in response to stress. Any tiny stress would exhaust me. I felt like I went straight to fight-or-flight mode. My heart rate would shoot up, I'd get pain where the tremors originated, and of course buzzing tremors. Now a tiny stress could be as simple as getting out of bed and standing up. Or it could be something like going to a doctor.

I was also getting increasingly weak. I had gastrointestinal pain, pelvic pain, fatigue, memory loss, low temp, weight gain, swelling, voracious appetite but lots of digestive problems. I was offered SSRIs, antibiotics, and surgery, none of which helped and only made me feel worse.

I certainly looked very anxious to everyone who saw me and that made it easy for them to dismiss my physical symptoms as anxiety. My family thought I was turning into a lazy b****, my psychiatrist said I was catastrophizing, and one doctor even tried to induce me to have an anxiety attack without warning me, just to prove my symptoms were emotional. They were not.

I eventually found an endocrinologist who gave me a pretty full diagnosis. It starts with celiac disease and SIBO. This causes me to not get enough nutrients, which leads to neurological problems (thus some tremors, weakness, memory loss, personality changes, serious anxiety), low production of neurotransmitters (thus mood problems), low hormone production (which makes you feel like crud in all kinds of ways), and also adrenal insufficiency. It also connects to blood sugar problems and autoimmune thyroid disease (which causes depression and mood swings and problems regulating body temp). Oh and anemia too, which made me so exhausted I couldn't function.

When I started treatment, these full body nighttime tremors went away. My hunch is that these particular earthquake-like tremors related to the adrenal insufficiency. Not only did they start from the area of the adrenals, but my adrenals responded quickly to treatment and the earthquake tremors went away around this time.

I still have other visible tremors in my hands and face and neuropathy from low b12, but they don't feel like vibrations, they just burn. With the eartquake tremors there was no actual movement, it just felt like there was.

Anyway, I get frustrated when clear physical symptoms are blamed on anxiety. In not saying that's never the case. I just think it's over-attributed without ruling physical illness out first.

And by the way, the vitamin and mineral deficiencies that affected my mental state most severely were low b12, vitamin d, iodine, magnesium. Supplementation was not easy or side effect free, but ultimately I needed it and it makes a huge difference. Without these my body and mind don't work right.

Hope this is helpful.

[Natsteveo]

100% anxiety attack. I've been battling wives it for 16 years now and I still get it even though you wasn't feeling anxious don't mean it's not!! It's so annoying isn't it it's horrible to battle with yourself everyday it won't be ms hun guaranteed but I'm sure u could get it ruled out if u go doctors just to put your mind at rest

[Timsmith]

Believe me it's not ms it is anxiety. I went through the same thing anxiety is always worse in the morning or whan you wake up. I was so scared I had ms cause the Dr just mentioned it would not hurt to have test to look at that and other stuff. That's all I needed to hear. Then I went online read about ms and a hr later I convinced myself I had it and started getting more symptoms every day. Guess what I don't have it I have 4 buldging disc that can be corrected and all the other symptoms magically went away. Ms is not that common but anxiety and symptoms that mimic ms are. Try to relax talk to your dr if ya need to but don't let this cripple you up more then ms would ever do.

[Kimbosuki5]

Thank you everyone for yalls responses. I really appreciate it and it makes me feel much better. I have had every blood work done , a ct scan of my brain, echocardiogram and everything was completely normal. Thank God! So I just gotta tell myself that I'm ok anxiety sucks.

[Kimbosuki5]

Would signs of MS show up in the cat scan?

[Timsmith in reply to Kimbosuki5]

No it wouldn't you would need a mri . You just have to get it out of your mind you don't have ms

[Timsmith in reply to Kimbosuki5]

Google why I don't have ms. A site will come up called anxiety zone

Read that it will explain what your going through and how your feeling and how it is anxiety and not ms or als. I have been there I lost my summer to it.

[Kimbosuki5]

I looked it up but a bunch of ms things came up and it scared me. I just want to make sure anxiety can make your legs feel like they're trembling and body like an earthquake at night and pulse really high. Sometimes I feel my face or legs tingling. Is that an anxiety symptom?

[Tiffany_smith]

I just had this happen to me. Im glad I'm not the only one. Im 18 with Bipolar depression and anxiety. I went to sleep about an hour or two ago. I woke up from a dead sleep, feeling like there was an earthquake. Ive never experienced this before but I also am going through alot of stress...more than usual. Im scared that it will happen again. Does anyone have any suggestions to deal with this?

[izzy01]

Yes I feel like that mostly all the time every morning I feel shaky like a lot of energy but in a bad way, and I just start feeling really anxious it happens to after naps sometimes,