Hi my son is 3, he came down with a temperature last Thursday and started with muscle spasms/twitching that he's never done before. He became drowsy and fell asleep whilst I was on the phone to get an OOH appt, the twitching carried on for about an hour then we took him to the OOH who said it was viral. He was sick once when we got him home and since then his temp has been okay but he's been waking in the night which is unfortunately normal for us. He has really bad night sweats which seem to wake him up I have to change his pillow and sheets etc this has been going on for about a year every other night!
I've told his doctors but they've never been concerned.
Last night the same thing happened with sweating so I put him on my chest to try and get him to calm down and again he went drowsy and fell asleep which is unusual for him usually he wants to go downstairs. Because he was laid on my chest I could feel his whole body twitching and tensing, his legs, arms, bum, stomach, everything was just twitching. It went on for about 10 minutes, his heart was really pounding. I took him to the gp today and he said it sounds like rigors? Shivering? It really didn't feel like shivering to me it felt like twitching muscles all over. He checked him over and all his glands are swollen and he found a heart murmur which he's never had before. He sent us away and told us to go back after our holiday for another check up, this Friday we're going to Cornwall for a week. I really can't stop worrying about him, it's all so unusual for my son, he's had plenty of fevers before but I've never felt him twitch so much and the heart murmur has panicked me. I googled (I know I shouldn't of done) and it says the murmur can cause excessive sweats. I told the gp about the sweating that he's always had and he said he doesn't know why he does that. I'm at a complete loss, one part tells me to just treat it like a normal virus but another part of me is really panicking!