i was trying to sleep last night.. and let me tell you i have trouble sleeping.. but last night ... right before i fell asleep my whole body did this jerk / seizure type thing.. i woke up right away and almost paniced.. anyone know ??

can you be more clear as to what happend? i had something similar happen and had an eeg that came back normal with me though i just stop breathing and im not panicing before hand and i loose my vision until i gasp for air scary as hell....i think i have POTS though or a hormonal issue im still getting tested i think i may have injured my spine in april and this may be why i have problems sometimes i jerk but it passes is it your whole body? do you have any other symptoms im always lightheaded all the time and i get dizzy and my heart rate fluctuates all day when i stand up its zips up too high when i lay down my blood pressure gets excessivly low

That happens to me pretty regularly. I'll be laying in bed, about 5-10 minutes after I've "gone to sleep" when my whole body or just a leg or arm shakes. It just shakes once and that's it, which is enough to wake me up. Sometimes it happens several times during the night. Does that sound like what happens to you?

yes its when im about to sleep or right into my sleep when my body does this jerk one time.. and i get scared... but i brush it off and sleep .. im ok the next day.. but im still worried

As far as I can tell it's something it's muscle tension caused by anxiety. Believe me, countless times I've kept thinking it's a seizure, but it's never caused any harm and I notice that it only happens when my anxiety is bad.

I've found that stretching/tensing my muscles before bed and then relaxing them tends to keep this "jerk" away. Try different sleeping positions too, that helped me.

Try looking up "hypnagogic myoclonus". That is probably what you (and 70% of the population) are experiencing. It happens to me all the time and is completely harmless!

I've had several of these things thru' the years (we call them "myoclonic jerks" ;) in our house) and they are not pleasant. Not dangerous either.

jb

i agree,its normal although scarey, i think i catch air at times!!

Dont worry about this gxpark It happens to me sometimes too.They are harmless jerks not seizures.When a persons body jerks it doesnt always mean seizure.Sometimes when people faint you can visably see them slightly shaking or jerking and it doesnt always mean seizure its still just a faint.This stuff your having right when you slip off to sleep is nothing but a jerk its happen to millions of us and nothing is wrong.

thanks everyone.. thanks tmmo=)

gxpark,

Have you ever seen a dog or cat jerk right when it falls asleep and then wake up? I thave seen my cat do it many times and she seems to live through them. I think our body parts do little jerks when we are in REM sleep and sometimes they wake us up. It has happened to me before, and I have seen my boyfriend do it also and usually go right back to sleep.

Lyl