Hi guys!
So for quite a while now, I've been experiencing what I think are tremors falling asleep. I have posted about them before but they're causing me some bad anxiety again tonight. Usually what happens is I'm drowsy and as I'm dosing, my body starts shaking. And whenever I wake up my body is shaking/vibrating for a few minutes.
The part that is bothering me is that I just came back from a three week vacation. While on vacation, I didn't experience these tremors at all, which was weird to me because I was experiencing them almost every night before. Now that I'm back home, my tremors are back as well.
My endo told me last month that she thinks it might be good related, and asked me to keep a log of what I'm eating for dinner and to try and pinpoint triggers. Something I noticed is that I eat a lot more carb heavy foods at home. I read online about someone with a gluten allergy experiencing this and it's been making me wonder if it could be causing the tremors. My dinners on vacation generally had very little to no gluten and I was fine. I love my bread and pasta though and had those the last two nights being back, and also tremors with them.
I also wondered if it could be environmental. Although, I'm not sure how it could be. Maybe I'm overthinking things.
Anyways, I'm sorry for the long post. I was just really anxious and wanting to talk to someone about it. I also want to hear if anyone has similar experiences or problems with sleeping.
I had these tremors before. Exactly as you described, they would happen any time i would try to fall asleep. Several nights it got so bad where i could not get any sleep. As soon as i closed my eyes, i would wake up with a tremor/spasm and my heart would be palpitating really fast. The fact that you were just on vacation and you didnt experience such symptoms should tell you something. Its most likely environmental caused by anxiety. I had it checked out with my dr and he told me just that, its anxiety. I stayed away from caffeine and sugars. I drink herbal teas, meditate and do Yoga. I haven't had them in months. Stay calm and relaxed, if they do happen just accep them and dont panic, try to calm down and go right back to sleep. Believe it or not what helped me to eventually lose focus on the tremors was counting sheep. Id never made it to 100 before falling asleep.
i had these terribly for a two week period when my anxiety was elevated, especially in my legs. it feels like when your cell phone is in your pocket and you have it on vibrate and someone calls. the tremors or vibration would ONLY happen when attempting to go to sleep or falling asleep. they eventually went away as i improved my stress levels. i also had a bout of waking up to uncontrollabe chest spasms. but with the separate bout of leg vibrations...only would happen while dozing off to sleep.
Thank-you for your response! I will try the counting sheep thing. It still seems odd to me that its anxiety, considering I was even more anxious when I was on vacation! I already cut out caffeine and have limited my sugar intake (I have a sweet tooth) and avoid meds unless absolutely necessary.
For a while it was more in my legs too! It's been months though and turned into an all over thing. I feel it a lot in the back of my head/neck, as well as my legs and arms.
Thank-you for responding. It's comforting hearing others talk about similar problems.
yeah it was pretty terrible when i was experiencing them but then again my health anxiety was super high. it would only come on as i was falling asleep or dozing off. i'll say this...my physical symptoms have been pretty terrible the last couple of years...anxiety is a difficult thing to deal with.
Hi! I'm currently experiencing these tremors. It got to the point where my teeth were chattering ☹️ It was so horrible! I'm now afraid to sleep and have to talk myself into feeling fine. I repeat words and phrases and basically give myself a pep talk to relax enough to attempt to sleep. I tremor right before bed for a little bit, then wake up in the middle of the night and again tremor a little bit. It's like I'm cold although I'm not. Usually hugging a pillow helps (body pillows Are the best) and I just wait for it to pass. Sometimes they don't and I have to get up, walk around a little, turn a fan on, it's a whole exhausting routine. Not sure how I'm managing to sleep anymore. I hope your tremors stop soon. I too think its environmental and may be work/home related. Just think of your vacation when the tremors begin. Finding a happy place in your mind is very important. Best of luck!
Im having these exact same symptoms. Its progressed as my anxiety about what is going on gets worseIs everyone still ok ? My bloodwork and MRI were normal but still having these darn tremors that wake me up at night. Is it just anxiety?
I started having these tremors back in Feb 2020. It is now April. I woke up at 4 AM and was trembling all over..Since then, it happens all the time as I am dropping off to sleep. I can stop them for a while if I lie on my right side. I went to A and E once as the trembles were so bad that the back of my head was trembling. They checked my heart (ECG) and my lungs ( X-ray) and my blood. All was fine. My hormone TSH was a tiny bit high and my calcium a little hight too, but nothing to be concerned about, said the doctor. They said I had sub-clinical HYPO THYROIDISM, but it was yet not urgent to medicate for. I am having a blood test again in 3 weeks time, May 2020. I cannot understand why the internal tremors come at night and I have them for a bit as I wake up. Never day time if I lounge on sofa watching the TV or read a book. My blood pressure is on the high side too. I am at a loss. Can someone tell me if your tremors have gone away now? I know this FORUM have posts from 2018, so maybe you all have left it by now? Thank you.
My doctor told me too that it is anxiety, but I have been anxious before, ( when I was diagnosed with high grade cancer), but I didn't feel these tremors then. I have been anxious many many times in my life, but never ever had these weird night time 'dropping off to sleep vibrations'----ever .....Bizarre..Let me know how you get on. I am 71 years old. I am well apart from these vibrations...
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Are you OK now? I have just started these bizarre night time tremors. It has gotten so bad I worry going to bed..
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It started with my chest area. Then it is now moving to fingers, legs , lips and back of head..WTF is it?? Are the vibrations the nerves shaking or small muscles shaking??
Hey there I'm sorry you're going through this too.. I've been having these since around January nearly every night I may get the odd night where it dont happen but this is always of a night when I try dropping off it will happen when my body vibrates and my chest is shaking really fast and it also makes me feel drained weak and weird I just can't explain this feeling as such but I know it's down to anxiety but every night I always worry this will happen again so sleeping is so hard for myself.
Yes i had these tremors for two months and they do go away if you stop worrying about them. It does not happen immediately and is a very gradual process in my experience. You have to believe they are nothing and they do disappear eventually I promise. Mine happened after I just turned 40 in December. I didnt even think I was anxious. Just overworked/stressed/have little kids and my anxiety that this was something that was going to kill me was through the roof as it worsened I am fit, healthy, etc. I am also a veterinarian that wants to know how or why this was happening It just boggled my mind that anxiety alone could cause it esp since it was happening mostly at night. They tried to give me anti-anxiety drugs to get over them but i refuse to take themI did have to take xanax during the worst times to get sleep bc sleep deprivation made them worse. I now take melatonin to help me and its worked! Also no doctors or neurologists (i saw three) knew what they were so this page was very helpful for me to give me hope. I want to help others with them bc whenever you search things only the worst things pop up.
Hi, I've read your article and been searching on the internet about my symptom but I couldn't find anything about. Every time I try to fall asleep, I feel as if my bed was slowly moving like a light earthquake even though I'm laying very still.
I don't know if I'm the only one who has experienced this but would like to know if anyone else has this symptom too. This has been happening almost every night.
I have been having tremor almost every night my whole body would vibrate soon as I try to fall asleep, and a weird pain in my arms for a few minutes then it go away, this only happen at night when I try to fall asleep, am so worried can someone tell me why am feeling this way, I worried alot, and sometime feeling like my heart pulping so fast I think am having a heart attack, sometime it feel like something hold my head squeezing it together, please tell me why am having this tremor feelings every night . my Dr told me I have anxiety but do you think its just anxiety?
I have the exact same experiences. Mine seems to be worse on days of heavy phone usage or lots of electronics use. Still have no idea what causes it! scary as hell
i have heard the same thing, anxiety is the cause. If it was only anxiety, then why would the tremors / vibrations only occur when laying in bed and start up right as you drift off to sleep?
If it was anxiety cause or effect then wouldn't the tremors / vibrations occur all the time during the day while feeling anxious?
Hello everyone,
I have been experiencing wake/sleep internal vibration for approximately five years. I periodically search the Internet to see if anyone has discovered a physiological cause for this phenomenon. Several years ago I experienced a health crises that led my allopathic physician to test me for RA and lupus. Thankfully, I was introduced to a chiropractic physician who introduced me to the “food as medicine” lifestyle and forever changed my life. Through diet and lifestyle changes I avoided those nasty diagnoses, and the subsequent pharmaceuticals.
My passion for natural healing inspired me to leave my career as a bank manager and return to school to study holistic nutrition. Based on my education and my personal experience with internal vibration I have formed a theory. It seems to me that the trigger is hormones. I hypothesize this because I only experience the internal vibration when I wake up suddenly or if I doze off when reading/watching TV. I do not experience the vibration when waking up after a normal nights sleep. It feels like my body first receives a release of melatonin causing sleep then suddenly a rush of cortisol or another hormone involved in waking up. As a result of these two opposite hormones in a short time span I experience what feels like a car with a rough idle inside my core. Again, I disclose this is only a theory I am just as disturbed and preoccupied with the “why” as all of you. I am sure there is a simple solution once we discover the “what”.
I have included a link for anyone interested in learning more about (Circadian Rhythms and Hormonal Homeostasis: Pathophysiological Implications). I would appreciate feedback if anyone cares to read the article and explore this avenue of potential causation.
Thank you, sorry for the long post. 😊
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5372003/
just came across your comment! I have bad anxiety, and I get the same thing! I'll be dosing off to sleep, and then I get this rush & trembling that wakes me...happens throughout my sleep! Drives me crazy! Seems like I can't turn my brain off either! ugh...