Chronic Pain Support Group
Physicians and professionalsdefine pain as chronic if it lasts longer than three to six months and is persistent. It's distinct from acute pain that is a direct result of injury or trauma. This support group is dedicated to those suffering from chronic pain. Discuss treatments that have worked for you, find advice for your specific experience, and find support. You're not...
So, just to keep life interesting, my system is throwing weird things at me again. I guess my life has not been challenging enough?
It started two days ago and has been steadily getting stronger. It only happens when I am lying down... So since I try to get in at least one nap (naps are GREAT!!!) that means I am fighting this twice a day lately.
How to explain this.... It is like just as I start to drift to sleep, my major muscles start randomly clenching. I am not talking about twitching, but fully contracted and they stay that way for about 30 seconds. Then a couple minutes later, a different muscle will contract. Full joints will move and bend - like my knees or elbows. There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason as to what muscles contract or for how long.
It is not painful, until it jerks my spine. Because of this, I can't sleep until it stops. Last night it went on for well over an hour. During my 2 hour nap this afternoon it might have lasted about 30 minutes.
I wonder if it is related to the shaking that I have been doing since coming off the barbiturates? I have no clue. I am about to head for bed. It is late and I can only hope that what ever this was it is over and done with now.
Yadlim and my Misha
It started two days ago and has been steadily getting stronger. It only happens when I am lying down... So since I try to get in at least one nap (naps are GREAT!!!) that means I am fighting this twice a day lately.
How to explain this.... It is like just as I start to drift to sleep, my major muscles start randomly clenching. I am not talking about twitching, but fully contracted and they stay that way for about 30 seconds. Then a couple minutes later, a different muscle will contract. Full joints will move and bend - like my knees or elbows. There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason as to what muscles contract or for how long.
It is not painful, until it jerks my spine. Because of this, I can't sleep until it stops. Last night it went on for well over an hour. During my 2 hour nap this afternoon it might have lasted about 30 minutes.
I wonder if it is related to the shaking that I have been doing since coming off the barbiturates? I have no clue. I am about to head for bed. It is late and I can only hope that what ever this was it is over and done with now.
Yadlim and my Misha
The first time I saw him I was a couple weeks out of surgery and I felt like crap. He was on the ball enough to get me healthy again. I wish he had been around after my cancer... anyway, just after I was diagnosed with cancer he had a fatal heart attack. I desperately miss him.
Yadlim and critters