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Twitches and Spasms
So, for I while I have felt weird mussle twitches and spasms. Loads of em' in my arms, legs, and chest. My favorite is the one I get on my elbow. Once they errupt, they last for about 30 seconds, or until I move my arm. I love to quickly move my other arm and feel it go... bump....bumpbump.....bumpbump...bump....bump.... Is this normal? Is this some unknown disease? I want your knowlage/opinion on my weird spasms.
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12 years ago
well, it could be just not getting enough exercise. A couple days ago that happened to me where I spent 6 hours in various waiting rooms (my dad fell off his bike, had to go to doctors, I had to go cause I had to go to the dentist immediatley after) and spent a couple hours designing a circuit board.
Reply 12 years ago
Ur right! But I play rockband drums daily. On EXPERT.
Reply 12 years ago
it's time to get into sports...
Reply 12 years ago
:) You're right... but not now, it's 10 in the morning.
Reply 12 years ago
well, it's 9:49, but whatever... i got up at 5:30 for mole removal surgery. lidocaine is crazy!!!, you get all high, and then fall asleep...
Reply 12 years ago
lidocaine? Is that laughing gas?
Reply 12 years ago
no, it's related to cocaine, but it's not bad for your body. you inject it into your iv tube to make you fall asleep and feel comfortable. then afterwards, when you're asleep, they put the gas on you. 2 hours feels like a minute, it's pretty cool. i posted a forum, just click on my avatar.
Reply 11 years ago
OMG, I had that taken before for something, I don't remember but yeah, that stuff is cool, my dad says I have been asleep for 3 or so hours, but it feel like 2 minutes to me... I wonder why? I guess I feel like I am dead when that stuff is on me.
Reply 11 years ago
yeah, it's like the best sleep you've ever had or something
Reply 12 years ago
kk... I haterepeathate laughing gas,
Reply 12 years ago
lidocaine is so cool, it makes the laughing gas alot easier, but you still have the taste of pennies in your mouth from the gas...
how'd you do the small text?
i only know how to do big text
Reply 12 years ago
2 commas, space, text, 2 commas.
I always say the chemicals taste like nickels
not pennies
Reply 12 years ago
like this?
thanks.
either way it tastes like metal, and...
they gave me a coke afterwards, so the taste went away ;P
but also, i was shaking from the gas, but i wasn't cold, though i was shivering.
Reply 11 years ago
Where you shaking physically or mentally?
Reply 12 years ago
a bottle of coke? Or a can?
Reply 12 years ago
can.
Reply 12 years ago
Free?
12 years ago
I get them every time my sleep schedule changes, which can be pretty often. Usually by my elbows or my thumbs. Sometimes if I get really stressed, I get a twitch under the corner of my eye, just like some psycho character you'd expect to see on Invader Zim. I'm sure it's normal, but I wouldn't put too much reassurance in that term. Usually if I keep myself on good vitamins, they go away in a week or two.
Reply 12 years ago
Thumbs?!?
Reply 12 years ago
Yeah, the big muscle that connects the thumb to my palm. About as often as my elbow muscles.
Reply 11 years ago
I know what you mean by thumb now. One day, I was singing on Rockband, and you had to tap the mic, and I accidently slammed the mic to hard, and I felt my hand start to twitch near my thumb. I think they might just be cramps though.
Reply 12 years ago
Oh, yeah I get those sometimes too.
Reply 12 years ago
andthen my teeth...
hehe
Reply 12 years ago
huh?
12 years ago
Dredges memory
Magnesium deficiency?
If the symptoms persist, and especially if they get worse or more frequent, then you must see a doctor. They're probably nothing (easily solved if they are a dietary deficiency), but muscle tremors are sometimes symptomatic of neurological disorders.
Reply 12 years ago
So eat more fish?
Reply 12 years ago
Wouldn't hurt, unless you're allergic.
Reply 12 years ago
I dunno, there's been a lot in the news lately about high mercury levels in fish...
Reply 12 years ago
...but only if you eat one type of fish very often.
Reply 12 years ago
Not so, many different types of fish contain mercury.
Reply 12 years ago
true, but eating different kinds means different contaminates and possibly different sources. this decreases the chance of you being exposed to a high amounts of a single contaminate. but not always so... still, it can be worth doing.
Reply 12 years ago
I haven't eaten fish in a while anyway,
Reply 12 years ago
I ain't allergic to anything.
Reply 12 years ago
???
Reply 12 years ago
Fish are a significant source of magnesium and vitamin A so that will fix your dietary deficiency.
Reply 12 years ago
Fish is yummy. Like flounder. And I like clams. I can eat them raw or plain. I love them with the Tobasco sauce in the green bottle (Jalepino juice).
Reply 12 years ago
Kiteman I thought you were a doctor, and not just the PhD kind of doctor.
Reply 12 years ago
No, I just end up talking to a lot of them (most of my family have something wrong with them, and I often end up translating consultant-speak).
Reply 12 years ago
your a phd?!! in what? my dad's a phd in physics!
Reply 12 years ago
nevermind, i read the comment below...
=( too bad...
Reply 12 years ago
But you are a scientist with a PhD?
Reply 12 years ago
I'm a science teacher, no PhD though.
I spent too much time in the bar at university.
Reply 12 years ago
Hmm, you know too much not to have one.
Reply 12 years ago
Nah, a real doc would've known Herpes Zoster causes chickenpox the first time around, shingles the second. ;)
Reply 12 years ago
Neurological? Should I mention I'm still going through puberty? Could that be it?
Reply 12 years ago
Hmmm... Are you going through growth spurts? It could just be your nervous system catching up (literally - your brain takes time to learn where your extremities are), or it could just be the manky teenage diet. Try mineral supplements.
Reply 12 years ago
No spurts yet...
Reply 12 years ago
Then you're not going through puberty...
Reply 12 years ago
Puberty isn't defined as going through growth spurts. A person could be fairly well along into puberty before really hitting a growth spurt.
Reply 12 years ago
It was a joke, a mucky innuendo.