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07/05/2008 21:11
ldsucs
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When I am resting sometimes my whole body starts jerking...I'm not sure it's tremors or what? Sometimes it happens when I'm standing but mostly when I'm not moving...my body jerks and I can't stop it. Or is this RLS or what???? It makes it hard to sleep when this happends and it's embarassing when it happens in public!!!
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07/06/2008 06:02
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Wow!, I have'nt heard of that symptom before. I would call you Dr. ASAP. Keep us posted.

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07/06/2008 10:23
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I've had a lot of trouble with it in the past and sometimes still do. I've even had comments from people noticing I shake all the time. I've actually had my knees jerk out from under me. It's embarrassing but it has almost completely gone away with treatments.
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07/06/2008 12:56
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Hi,

This happens to me often. At first it was that feeling everyone experiences at one time or other, that jerk that sometimes happens when your muscles are tense and you are trying to go to sleep. The instances have increased in number and severity.

Now I am also experiencing something completely different. I thought I was haunted at first. I would lay in bed at night and feel the bed shaking. I'm pretty sensitive and didn't feel the presence of anything ghostly. So I started thinking it was a car driving by. I'm on the second floor after all. That could happen, right? Then I felt the same thing while staying somewhere else in a different bed. That's when I realized it was my own body doing it.

I also get a low blood sugar shake... as if I am a major alcoholic trying to detox. Since, I cannot drink a drop with my Lyme disease, this made no sense. Protien used to make it stop. The other day I had to eat a bunch of ice cream quickly, or I would have passed out.

All of these shaking symptoms have appeared since I've had Lyme disease. I figure it is one of the neurological symptoms.


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