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Limb spasms at night

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butterpieify · 15/02/2011 22:31

Is there anything that you can do to stop limb spasms? (not sure if that is the right term - you know that thing where, you are lying in bed, minding you own business, and somehow the relxing makes your limbs do funny things like fly off to the side or shake for a minute of two, kind of like the falling thing but only one bit of your body)

I occaisionally get nights wear I hardly sleep because every time I'm about to drop off, an arm shoots up in the air or a leg starts shaking about. Doesn't happen very often these days (used to happen more when I worked nights- I think it is a lack of sleep and physical work thing) but when it does it is very annoying! It is almost like I am stopping concentrating on my limbs so they decide to work off any sprains themselves.

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PoledrathePissedOffFairy · 15/02/2011 22:34

Sounds like Restless Leg Syndrome to me. There are treatments out there for it, so your GP is probably the best place to start.

realrabbit · 15/02/2011 22:37

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PoledrathePissedOffFairy · 15/02/2011 22:41

Oooh, that's interesting, realrabbit - does sound more plausible than mine...........

alypaly · 16/02/2011 00:04

i was on amitriptyline a few weeks ago and it gave me the twitches. i kept hitting myself in the face just as i was nodding off. it was sooooooo annoying. I twitch anyway and like you it wakes me up for the rest of the night.
but the tablets made it worse.

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