Epilepsy...

Dirty_Harry_Potter

<div class="IPBDescription">...anyone else got these ticks/spasm's</div> i'm beginning to feel random ticks/Spasm's all over my body at random times, examples:
- some night i was lieing in my bed, and my jaw suddenly jumped up closing, then going down again...
- about dinner time, my left little finger just started to shake, and i couldn't control it, for about 5-10sec.
- my legs sometimes makes small jump spasms when im sitting down
- just before i was about to start this topic a muscle in my left part of my stomach spasm'ed out.

just hope they don't get any worse - never had an actual epileptic attack - anyone else got these spasms?

obuh

yes sometimes I get this kind of things...

Align

Me too. I think it's normal, so you're not in danger of epilepsy.

SkinnY

nah... i don't experience stuff like that <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> i guess im just wierd :/

Dirty_Harry_Potter

<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->i guess im just wierd :/ <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <i>YOU'RE</i> wierd? it's me that has the possesed little finger <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Salty

maybe you should drink more water and exercise?

DOOManiac

Sometimes when lying in bed at night (like maybe once every few months) my legs will suddenly kick real hard on their own, but just once. Only happened during the daytime like once or twice though.

Though I'd sum it up to lack of exercise more than Epilepsy...

RPG_Jssmfulhud

Sometimes, when I'm falling asleep in the bed, I suddenly open my eyes and have a feeling of falling, my whole body just shakes. Then I get to sleep again. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

AllUrHiveRblong2us

Oh I get that ALL the time. Usually it will happen when I'm having a cream where I trip or fall down some stairs, then I'll suddenly wake up and my body will tense up preparing for an impact, then I'll realise it was just a dream, and anyone around me will look at me like I have 7 heads.

TheWizard

The ticks you experience are often caused from stress or caffeine. hehe the trick is that the ticks often cause stress by causing you to worry about them. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

It is natural and not threatening in any way. Most likely in a few days they will stop.

(I think everyone does that almost falling asleep thing and jerking out of sleep like a madman)

Liku

My right eyelids spas' out all the time. It's gone down though.

BigMadSteve

I get that falling feeling occasionally too. Pretty creepy.

Some_tall_guy1

THAT IS HAPPENING TO ME NOW! it caused by stress, for me its from too much exercise. basically what happens is im watching tv and my leg starts twitching for about 5 minutes and other things like that. Too much waterpolo.....

xioutlawix

I get lil minor ticks on occassion. Every once in a while I'll feel my eyelid twitching against my eye, and i'll just all go "ARGGHHHH" and rub it a bit, and it'll go away, or like around the corner of my mouth a small muscle might start throbbing (feels like a pulse, just more pronounced) that causes my mouth to move slightly. Nothing so far as having my mouth actually fully open or close though.

RPG_Jssmfulhud

Well, it is believed that the "falling threat" occurs due to our "ancestors". They were monkeys and were jumping from tree to tree. Some missed a branch and fell down, thus, leaving a fear of falling... Whether you believe this or not. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Dirty_Harry_Potter

<!--QuoteBegin--wizard@psu+Jun 15 2003, 01:25 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (wizard@psu @ Jun 15 2003, 01:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The ticks you experience are often caused from stress or caffeine. hehe the trick is that the ticks often cause stress by causing you to worry about them. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

It is natural and not threatening in any way. Most likely in a few days they will stop.

(I think everyone does that almost falling asleep thing and jerking out of sleep like a madman) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
the problem i've had this for some time, most of the time i there's some muscle that spasm's out(including the leg-jump thingy), all the others happened within a week - caused by caffeine eh? guess it's a i-drink-too-much-cola-and-not-doing-enough-excercise thingy.

FireStorm

I never had things like that... Shouldn't you play less and get a life?

Narfwak

Be nice, Firestorm.

I get this kind of thing all the time. It's had me worried lately, as my grandfather had Parkinson's, and his son (my father) has very shaky hands. I don't want to lose my razor-sharp FPS reflexes.

Coby

I have kind of twitching in my thumb very often! Or, it's not really like twitching, it's more... cramping (if that's even a word), happens very often, really. And a muscle (whatever it's called, right "under" shoulder) gets cramps very often.

btw I can dislocate my thumb, and do it just for my own amusement very much, maybe that's what's causing it <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'll try to take an image of my hand with a dislocated thumb and upload it here jsut for you to see <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Oh, oh, and I can also dislocate my shoulder, AND put my (both) thumbs into my wrist, bending backwards, and every other finger goes 130 degrees bending backwards <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Rellix

In the morning someties my jaw gets ultimit pain when I yawn as if I pulled the mucle.

RPG_Jssmfulhud

That's common. It's the same as if you strech your legs and "stretch" a muscle too hard. Yow! That hurts!

X_Stickman

You mean a Cramp? I have a problem with my jaw, apparantly it's an inherited thing. It's like the jaw bone doesn't <i>quite</i> fit the socket. sometimes it locks up, other times it really hurts, and all of the time it clicks. and my teeth are misshapen. Anyway, yeah, muscle spasms. Happens a lot to me. Sometimes my little finger, my arm, my leg or even my head. I head butted a wall once just as i was going to sleep. Really hurt

RPG_Jssmfulhud

Well, I once woke up, still wanted to lie for a bit... Sooo, I streched my leg and.... Cramp... YOW! I was, hmmm, yelling silently in pain. That was HORRIBLE! I couldn't move, speak or anything. Just the pain... Damn it, I hate it when it happens.

Loke

Very very rare on me, maybe sometimes my eye can go insane for some seconds, but not so dangerous.

But my cat got Epilepsy, sometimes he get a very very nasty Epilepsy attack so his saliva comes out of the mouth and urinate on the floor. This is not fun at all if you think that... Always when he gets an Epilepsy attack I get scared and shocked.

RPG_Jssmfulhud

Yes, epilepsy attacks are horrible to watch. And extremely painfull to the person/animal experiencing it. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

Shockeh

The muscle in my left eyebrow, where it used to be pierced, spasms occasionally.

Thankfully, it's not really visible when it happens.

UZi

They are called muscle spazms...they happen when the human nervous system is shocked.

A E too much exercise or whatnot.

MedHead

I find that ticks are due to sleep deprivation or stress. These are normal, but they do show a dangerous trend - it's not good to have no sleep and too much stress in a life.

The falling feeling you experience, from what I've heard, is normal. You know how you 'fall to sleep'? Well, that's what you're feeling, but you're conscious enough to experience it. Watch small children as they are falling asleep. They do this regularly.

Legionnaired

Yeah, definately drink a lot of water and try to increase your potassium intake for a few days, try to knock out some stressors, and get a lot of sleep. IF you're still getting them, you may want to see a neurologist, just in case. Better safe than sorry.

Dirty_Harry_Potter

i am getting the amount of sleep i should at least at home - here at the school it's normal for me to go to sleep at 23-00 and then be woken up at 7.40(every student have to be over in the dinning hall at 7.45 every day...), and in the weekends/holidays this is what i do:
wake, play comp all day, go to bed sometime during the night, then i wake up when my body feels like it(no alarm clock...) - what i consume during the day - cola & quicke junk food (ex. spring rolls...those you just have to heat...)

- maybe it's lack of excercise as some has suggested :/ as you can see i don't really have the health'iest habits and i know it...

<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->You mean a Cramp?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->no it's more like a random muscle just tighting, then it release again real quick, tighting, release etc. - which makes my arm shaking at the moment as i write...)

SoulSkorpion

I only get spasms when I see someone use an apostrophe when they're referring to a plural <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->