Do any of you guys ever get this weird little thing where a small portion of muscle (on any random areas of your body) just starts to twich? It'll just begin to "jump" sometimes quickly & rhythmically & other times intermittently. I get it on my fingers, leg, eyelid & as of the past 2 days, the back of neck. But it can happen anywhere.
What the hell *is* that & why does it happen??

Muscle spasms?

It's just your nerves twitching. It happens to me all of the time.

Yup.. its just your nerve endings twitching. When they get really relaxed, they kinda twitch... kinda like when youre in bed and all of a sudden you twitch and feel like youre falling.

Yeah that happens to me sometimes. What really weird is that my only my left eyelid twiches. :crazy:

Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤
Yup.. its just your nerve endings twitching. When they get really relaxed, they kinda twitch... kinda like when youre in bed and all of a sudden you twitch and feel like youre falling.

Yeah, I get that a lot. :p

That happens to me quite a bit, usually when I haven't been drinking enough water.

Originally posted by AKA
That happens to me quite a bit, usually when I haven't been drinking enough water.

I thought those were called charlie horses...

Originally posted by PZelda: VICKI!!
I thought those were called charlie horses...

I thought charlie horses hurt. Last time I heard someone mention one, they were in pain.

Originally posted by Rickenbacker
Do any of you guys ever get this weird little thing where a small portion of muscle (on any random areas of your body) just starts to twich? It'll just begin to "jump" sometimes quickly & rhythmically & other times intermittently. I get it on my fingers, leg, eyelid & as of the past 2 days, the back of neck. But it can happen anywhere.
What the hell *is* that & why does it happen??
That's the little bugs that live under your skin moving around.

Imjustkiddingya!

It's just electrical signals coming from your brain which tells your body what parts to move. I think it may just be an excess of electricity that causes these random impulses to fire.

What you described is common, but if it persists for a long period of time you should see a doctor.

I found this as a description:

Benign twitches (not caused by disease or disorders).

Often affect the eyelids, calf, or thumb
Normal and quite common, often triggered by stress or anxiety
A diet deficiency
Drug overdose
Drug side effect (such as diuretics, corticosteroids and estrogens)
Exercise

Fatigue and exposure to chemicals are also factors.

I get those twitches a lot.

Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤
Yup.. its just your nerve endings twitching. When they get really relaxed, they kinda twitch... kinda like when youre in bed and all of a sudden you twitch and feel like youre falling.

OMG I HATE that. :o

Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤
Yup.. its just your nerve endings twitching. When they get really relaxed, they kinda twitch... kinda like when youre in bed and all of a sudden you twitch and feel like youre falling.

Ugh, that freaks me out so much when that happens. :o

Sometimes at night, always *right* before I drift off to sleep, my whole body suddenly jerks. It feels like I'm falling, it's SO wierd.

Glad I'm not the only one it happens too!

yeh-get them all the time, mainly on my eyelids- and it makes my eyes water alot sumtimes too. I also get them round the back of one of my legs sometimes-it's kinda annoying too

I always twitch when i'm falling asleep. one time when i fell asleep i dreamed i was wearing high heels in some place and i tripped and fell and just when i hit the ground i sat up in bed really fast and woke up... it was weird

Originally posted by Berlin
Sometimes at night, always *right* before I drift off to sleep, my whole body suddenly jerks. It feels like I'm falling, it's SO wierd.

Glad I'm not the only one it happens too!

Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one. One minute I am about to go into sleep suddenly I feel like I am falling, I am glad to know now what it is.

Originally posted by Rickenbacker
Do any of you guys ever get this weird little thing where a small portion of muscle (on any random areas of your body) just starts to twich? It'll just begin to "jump" sometimes quickly & rhythmically & other times intermittently. I get it on my fingers, leg, eyelid & as of the past 2 days, the back of neck. But it can happen anywhere.
What the hell *is* that & why does it happen??
its a bad reaction to toxic nerve gas