Head BUZZING when sleeping? - TMJ Disorder -TemporoMandibular Joint Message Board

Merrida · 01-22-2003, 10:00 AM

I "think" this is related to my jaw, only because I can't figure out what else it could be,...but when I'm in that twilight state of half sleep but am dreaming,....yet aware of my surroundings,...I can work this into my dream where I feel like... Well you know when you chatter from the cold, and you tense your body up and if you were to chatter VERY hard to the point where your teeth are seriously chattering together and you get the sensation of your skull vibrating.

That's what I get. If I "stay asleep" it gets worse and worse, and I can concentrate on it, and feel it getting so bad that it feels like electricity running through my brain, and then I'm forced to wake up.

I've tried to ignore it and/or sleep through it figuring it's probably nothing serious, just from me doing more jaw clenching... it isn't the same as when I grind (because grinding is more rhythmic, and this is more constant), this is more like a non-stop buzz feeling and it intensifies progressively second by second if I don't wake up.

It's happened about a half dozen times so far, and it's so irritating as well as scary. Sure, wake up and it's gone, but what the heck IS this darn thing? I just woke up from one now, after a nap, and in my dream this buzz because severe head pain and chest pain, sincerely replicating a migraine <<in my dream>> in that "getting worse as the seconds go by" kind of thing. Wake up , and it's not there,.... like it really WAS the dream, except that when it happens, there's no word to describe accurately the degree of pain.

Has anyone ever had this happen to them?

Merrida · 01-22-2003, 05:49 PM

Hmm...

No one else has experienced this? I was hoping it was somewhat related. Not that *that* would have made it any better...

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Anonymity · 01-28-2003, 12:27 PM

I have experience this many times, but it is (as far as I know) related to my Restless Legs Syndrome and the medicines I have taken to control RLS. Try searching the RLS and sleep disorder boards. I believe there are some posts related to this on the Fibromyalgia board as well, and I think I've noticed your presence on that board before. If you would like more specifics from me, just ask.

GenDen · 01-28-2003, 01:54 PM

I can relate to this. In my case, I think it is muscle tension. We think the muscles relax during sleep, but they work all night. I find I am stiffer in the morning than when I went to bed. I don't know the answer. I find help if I meditate and do gentle massage of my head, jaw and neck muscles before I go to sleep.

Cymy Sue · 01-29-2003, 03:12 AM

Merrida,
I've had a similiar "weird" sensation occasionally for about the last 10 years. It's never at night. It's always if I take a nap during the day. (I think I don't get into a deep sleep.) It's always as I'm waking up, and I get these weird electrical "zaps".
I've done some research on it and can only find that people who take anti-depressants,(the SSRI's) or try to come off of them, experience "Brain Zaps". I never knew exactly how to explain it, but one person said it was like a Bug Zapper. I've never taken anti-depressants, so that would not be the cause of mine.

I've had all kinds of neurological tests due to the nerve damage I have, and then some more when I developed Tinnitus. So I don't worry about it being anything serious anymore.

I think GenDen is right about it being stress and tension related. I also think some of mine is due to the Trigeminal nerve damage I have. It's a very real noise (in your head) and a strange sensation, I've never experienced pain with it. You might want to mention it to your DR.

As I said, I've had them infrequently for 10 years and they actually are not as bad now as they were when they first started. And they don't seem to be causing any other problems.

As I sit and type this, I realize that just over 10 years ago, I had my first arthroplasty, and my first experience with Trig. nerve pain. That probably explains mine.

If you rule out everything else, it's probably muscles and nerves colliding in some strange way that no one truly understands, (as with most cases of idiopathic Tinntitus.) Your ears roar and scream , but nobody knows why.

I would have this checked out if you're not taking a medication that might cause it or if you do not have some kind of nerve damage that you're aware of.

Cymy Sue