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Random Twitching?

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Hi guys, I'm hoping you can help me figure this out. For about a week I've been experiencing random muscles twitches throughout my body. It's not normally in one particular area, but would be more often in quads/hams than another place. It is especially annoying, more so when I'm trying to fall asleep, but occurs throughout the day. These twitches are so noticeable, my whole body seems to almost jump at times.

My training hasn't changed much in the past couple of months, though I did recently reintroduce running, and hadn't been doing much cardio for a few months.

It's really starting to scare me. I'm wondering if I have a deficiency in my diet, which definately hasn't been the best lately. I did lose about 10 pounds. Any discussion would be greatly appreciated.
 
Smurfy said:

It's not just in my legs, and it's often very frequent throughout the day. Can be once every couple of minutes.
 
RachelEFC said:
It's not just in my legs, and it's often very frequent throughout the day. Can be once every couple of minutes.
It is very common for muscles to twitch involuntarily from fatigue after strenuous exercise
 
PICK3 said:
electrolyte imbalance

eat bannanas and drink sports drinks, then call me in the morning

eat the bananas, forget the sports drink.

If its a dietary deficiency, its probably magnesium or potassium
 
chris302001 said:
have you taken any meds or supplements?

I take Effexor for anxiety, and BCPs, haven't been taking anything else lately. I usually take my multivitamins, fish oil, calcium, but haven't been in a month or so because my stomach was so screwed up for a while and that seemed to bother me.
 
chris302001 said:
eat the bananas, forget the sports drink.

If its a dietary deficiency, its probably magnesium or potassium

I was also going towards the direction of magnesium deficiency as well.
 
Smurfy said:
It is very common for muscles to twitch involuntarily from fatigue after strenuous exercise

especially if your adding in a new exercise or going way more intense than usual. Your body isnt used to recruiting so many motor units, so there can be some residual neural activity.




Rach, I wouldnt worry now........if stays constant for 4-5 days, then I would start to worry.
 
Common Causes:
Benign twitches (not caused by disease or disorders)
Often affecting the eyelids, calf, or thumb
Normal and quite common, often triggered by stress or anxiety
A diet deficiency
Drug overdose (caffeine)
Drug side effect (such as diuretics, corticosteroids and estrogens)
Exercise
Symptoms suggestive of a neurological cause of fasciculations include:

Wasting of muscle
Weakness
Other findings of nerve dysfunction
Neurological illnesses where fasciculations are seen include:

Chronic denervation of muscle due to disk compression of nerve exiting the spinal cord
ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)
Spinal muscular atrophy
Muscular dystrophy
Myopathy
http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/003296.htm
 
chris302001 said:
especially if your adding in a new exercise or going way more intense than usual. Your body isnt used to recruiting so many motor units, so there can be some residual neural activity.




Rach, I wouldnt worry now........if stays constant for 4-5 days, then I would start to worry.


It's been a week :(
 
RachelEFC said:
I take Effexor for anxiety, and BCPs, haven't been taking anything else lately. I usually take my multivitamins, fish oil, calcium, but haven't been in a month or so because my stomach was so screwed up for a while and that seemed to bother me.
could be anxiety, especially if you already know you have anxiety
 
RachelEFC said:
It's been a week :(


How have you been eating though?

If your on a "cutting" diet (I noticed a few threads back that you said u wanted to lose a few more lbs), then I would totally attribute it to diet.
 
RachelEFC said:
Hi guys, I'm hoping you can help me figure this out. For about a week I've been experiencing random muscles twitches throughout my body. It's not normally in one particular area, but would be more often in quads/hams than another place. It is especially annoying, more so when I'm trying to fall asleep, but occurs throughout the day. These twitches are so noticeable, my whole body seems to almost jump at times.

My training hasn't changed much in the past couple of months, though I did recently reintroduce running, and hadn't been doing much cardio for a few months.

It's really starting to scare me. I'm wondering if I have a deficiency in my diet, which definately hasn't been the best lately. I did lose about 10 pounds. Any discussion would be greatly appreciated.

Plausable Causes:

Rickets
ALS
CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrom)
Parkinsons
MS

Various other Muscle/nerve disorders.

What it can also be a sign of:

Low potassium
Stress
Anxiety
Just random odd firings from your nervous system, that in the long run, mean nothing. If you start noticing what you perceive to be increased fatigue or weakness, then I'd worry. Otherwise you're probably fine. Keep in mind it can also turn psycho-symatic, as you start to worry about the symptom, the stress will cause it to increase in frequency.
 
sardonicone said:
Plausable Causes:

Rickets
ALS
CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrom)
Parkinsons
MS


Various other Muscle/nerve disorders.

What it can also be a sign of:

Low potassium
Stress
Anxiety
Just random odd firings from your nervous system, that in the long run, mean nothing. If you start noticing what you perceive to be increased fatigue or weakness, then I'd worry. Otherwise you're probably fine. Keep in mind it can also turn psycho-symatic, as you start to worry about the symptom, the stress will cause it to increase in frequency.

Let's think horses before we get excited about zebras.....

Muscle fasiculations arent a very common presenting symptom of any of those diseases.
 
chris302001 said:
Let's think horses before we get excited about zebras.....

Muscle fasiculations arent a very common presenting symptom of any of those diseases.


They're not? Could have fooled me. Obviously I'm not saying she has any of those. But yes, twitching are common early symptoms. The issue at hand though is just random twitching are symptoms of just about everything.
 
sardonicone said:
They're not? Could have fooled me. Obviously I'm not saying she has any of those. But yes, twitching are common early symptoms. The issue at hand though is just random twitching are symptoms of just about everything.


okay, let;s make an example..........

What's the #1 presenting symptom of ms then........and tell me without google..... hint -- its not fasiculations
 
chris302001 said:
okay, let;s make an example..........

What's the #1 presenting symptom of ms then........and tell me without google..... hint -- its not fasiculations

Did I say it was the number one presenting symptom?

At any rate, not all MS is the same either. (RR/PP/Sp/PR)

Often times though, tingling and numbness happen first. Though it's possible to be completely symptom free and then one day not be able to walk, or suddenly have the onset of stroke-like symptoms that are treatable with steroids.
 
sardonicone said:
Did I say it was the number one presenting symptom?

At any rate, not all MS is the same either. (RR/PP/Sp/PR)

Often times though, tingling and numbness happen first. Though it's possible to be completely symptom free and then one day not be able to walk, or suddenly have the onset of stroke-like symptoms that are treatable with steroids.

Ugh, I dont know why I bother with internet experts.....
 
PICK3 said:
I could contemplate your malady more clearly while viewing a nude pic.

Just sayin’

Give up bro she thinks yur a mo
 
chris302001 said:
Ugh, I dont know why I bother with internet experts.....


Actually I'm going off of personal experience. I have an uncle with MS, and one of my best friends mothers has MS as well.

But sure, throw out ad-hominiem accusations.
 
sardonicone said:
Actually I'm going off of personal experience. I have an uncle with MS, and one of my best friends mothers has MS as well.

But sure, throw out ad-hominiem accusations.
ahhhhh anecdotes..........

try evidence based medicine..........it is your friend.


But seriously, I dont know why Im being bitchy........just in a bad mood.
 
chris302001 said:
ahhhhh anecdotes..........

try evidence based medicine..........it is your friend.


But seriously, I dont know why Im being bitchy........just in a bad mood.


It's probably because you're always thinking of rape.

It happens.
 
I suggest you get yourself a good multimineral supplement. I used to get a lot of cramping and twitching until I started taking one twice a day...now I don't get those problems even on very hot days no matter how hard I work out. Proper hydration and a good multimineral supplement will fix you right up.
 
elo. pharmacist.

bottom line is that common things happen commonly, and most of the time, the cause of whatever it is youre complaining about is actually going to be the common sense answer - so dont worry about this "it may be neuraligia/multiple sclerosis/[insert fucking horrible disease here]" stuff, because really, its highly highly probable that its jsut that you work out a lot

here are some ideas to help you get your head around the idea, because the root cause of your anxiety about this issue is your lack of understanding

when you exercise, your muscles tighten up. as they do so, the other systems/vessels going through those muscle tissues start to be affected - for example, a muscle may get so tight so as to squash a nerve, and so you start getting funny signals going through that nerve. or perhaps the muscle tissues may tighten up so much that they squash the drainage vessels going through the areas (your lymphatic system) and so fluid doesn move within your tissues quite in teh way its meant to - which may then lead to some swelling in some areas, some dehydration in others, with lots and lots of effects on the other systems going through those areas as well.

then you should start thinking about what exercise does to metabolism - your needs for growth/recuperation are likely a lot higher, and so you have these pockets of muscle cells sucking nutrients out of your bloodstream, resulting in small areas of tissue where you actually may have a nutrient deficit (o2, glucose...whatever). muscle cells arent the only ones taht need those nutrients - your nerves need them at elast as much, and when you start depriving nerve cells of food they start acting weird, and sending signals all over the place

the last thing you should think about is that intense exercise uses up a lot of your neurotransmitters and neuromodulators (the molecules that help nerve cells communicate with each other) and so once again, after lots of exercise, you end up with a nervous system that isnt functioning correctly, and is sending out some retarded signals

i twitch like mad when i train a lot, and its happened for years. when im busting balls in the gym, i get twitches everywhere from my thigh to my thumb to my eye to my nose - all over the place. when i slow down the training, they go away. when i ramp it up, they come back. theyre linked, and graded - the harder the training/diet, the more it happens.

so chill out. i guess you could botox your whole body tho ;)
 
RachelEFC said:
I was also going towards the direction of magnesium deficiency as well.


didn't read the whole thread, but you nailed it. Mag deficit in the body will cause cause random, bodywide twitching. Potassium has nothing to do with twitching. People often confuse twitching with cramping, which are caused by two different deficiencies.

It's rare though for a healthy person to get a severe enough mag deficit to get that much twitching. I get it because of Lyme Disease (the bacteria consumes magnesium in the body), but I've no idea why you'd get it unless perhaps you consume lot of caffeine which blocks mag absorption.
 
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