Weird kick/shake when I'm tired.

[EKublai]

This happens a lot at night, in the morning and just when I'm really tired. It's usually while I'm reading a book late at night or eating breakfast. Just suddenly my leg will kick out or shudder. Sometimes it's not my leg. Sometimes it's my elbow or shoulder. It'll just quickly shudder and then stop. I don't think this is restless leg syndrome since I don't kick a lot in my sleep. I was wondering if anyone else experienced this sort of random tensing up of muscles when you're tired. It's just a violent twitch that happens every so often.

[Gousst]

Better get the affected limbs/parts amputated ASAP.

[PyroGreg]

I usually have that happen when I'm lying in bed, almost asleep.

[DarkRedFlame]

At 3/16/09 02:30 AM, Hornby wrote: I usually have that happen when I'm lying in bed, almost asleep.

Same here, or I will have it out of the blue, but that is more rare. I think it kind of funny though.

[Markface]

At 3/16/09 02:41 AM, DarkRedFlame wrote:

At 3/16/09 02:30 AM, Hornby wrote: I usually have that happen when I'm lying in bed, almost asleep.

Same here, or I will have it out of the blue, but that is more rare. I think it kind of funny though.

This is actually the body waking itself up. To a degree, when the body goes to sleep it's much like imitating the stages of dying. Now the body is an unbelievably incredibly mechanism that will do anything to keep itself alive, so it sends a jolt throughout the body to avert from these stages of sleep, that replicate dying.

Naturally, you're not even dying but the body can mistake itself now and again, hence why it's so rare.

ROFL I GO TO MED SCHOOL.

[Cyprus]

I do the same thing all the time.. It scared the hell out of me sometimes.
But I'm pretty sure everyone does it, my ex-gf used to do it all the time, really violently. It was funny.

[Oppugnant]

You've experience the Hypnic Jerk.

[Alpha-Critik]

So I am not the only one! Hi-five, twitchy brothers!

[jhylander]

At 3/16/09 02:05 AM, EKublai wrote: I was wondering if anyone else experienced this sort of random tensing up of muscles when you're tired.

Yeah i used to get this, but this is before i hit puberty.

But seriously, it is fine. It is just when your muscle spasm.

[Sawdust]

At first I thought you were having seizures, then a medical terminology came up

[REDSPADES]

I get this too, it wakes me up, like a hypnic jerk but in my leg or arm.

[HahaISuckMoreThanYou]

At 3/16/09 02:05 AM, EKublai wrote: This happens a lot at night, in the morning and just when I'm really tired. It's usually while I'm reading a book late at night or eating breakfast. Just suddenly my leg will kick out or shudder. Sometimes it's not my leg. Sometimes it's my elbow or shoulder. It'll just quickly shudder and then stop. I don't think this is restless leg syndrome since I don't kick a lot in my sleep. I was wondering if anyone else experienced this sort of random tensing up of muscles when you're tired. It's just a violent twitch that happens every so often.

Well it's serious; come to West Virginia so I could perform complicated surgeries on you for cheap.

After all I do go to this medical professional site every day to inform others about what to do if your legs twitching.

O wait...

[Zhe]

i kik bob

[Meepster]

Hes a zombie victim!

(2 weeks later)

Fuck.

[TacoFreak]

At 3/16/09 02:30 AM, Hornby wrote: I usually have that happen when I'm lying in bed, almost asleep.

me2

[HeartbreakHoldout]

Sometimes when I'm stretching, mostly in bed, my leg jerks quite violently. Not in the falling sensation kind of way though.
I don't know what causes it. Unless it is the same as a hypnic jerk.

[USPatriot]

When I'm laying in bed, I sometimes get a fall sensation. It's breif, but it ends with my whole body twitching like I actually fell.

[TamiyaGuy]

My dad does that all the time, it's annoying as hell. I'd just recommend you either go to sleep or get a bit of rest.

[Cyprus]

At 3/16/09 10:30 AM, USPatriot wrote: When I'm laying in bed, I sometimes get a fall sensation. It's breif, but it ends with my whole body twitching like I actually fell.

Yeah, that's your body forcing you to wake up... I heard it usually happens when you are reeeaallllllyyyy tired and you skip from the first stage of sleep to the third without going through the second, so your body forces you awake... fuck it i really remember... damn psychology class
Maybe this will help

[shaydezehetbauer]

It's just a twtich/tick.

It won't kill you, and it's certainly not an infection.

(Just get those parts amputated for safe measures. :p)

[Allocer91]

Sometimes when im really tired and i start dozing off or something, my legs will twitch a little bit..otherwise that's weird dude.

[Alfie]

It's just your leg waking itself up.
I do it in the middle of the day if I have double-lessons so I sit there for 2 hours.

[andy70707]

That happens to me if:
1. Ive drunk too much cafeine (>500mg)
2. if im in bed, and kind of asleep and then completely wake up
3. If I wake up from a dream where Im in the middle of falling

[unowned]

maybe this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

[Biscuit-head]

Sounds like you've got a little Jose in you.

[ROFLCHOPPA]

I did taht all the time in my social studies class, i almost fall assleep then my foot twitches