Random spasms

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I get random shudders / shivers. I get them pretty frequently at least a few times a week, but it might be days before I get them again and might have a couple in an hour. It seems pretty sporadic and not evidently related to anything. I do notice that I am often a little chilled, but being in the MidWest in the middle of winter pretty much means that I am always cold until late spring rolls around.

Mine I can usually tell I will get one about 30 seconds before it hits. I get a strange tingling at the back and base of my head and slight twinges at the base of my back right above my hips. A short while later a shiver rolls up from my lower back all the way up my spine twitching my shoulders a bit and usually causing my head to shake back and forth like I am shaking it to say no.

I just had a slight one while typing this. The twitch went from the left lower back up to my right arm causing my tricep to slightly spasm and then went on to my head causing it to sake back and forth twice. It is a weird sensation and makes me wonder if I had these for long and never noticed before. That is what I have come to notice about my finger twitching and other stims, I have been doing them forever, but never really noticed that fact.

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I have them too.

omg this happens to me too.

I get some brief violent shivering movements too... mostly when I am cold but sometimes randomly. I wonder what they are. They don't feel like any type of seizure I've heard of, and I can usually suppress or delay them.

When I get excited about something, I do that.

I've had them since I was 12.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoclonic_jerk

I've had some muscle spasms, once in a while it would be body-wide as you described. Haven't had them in a while. Not since I went gluten-free and took magnesium supplements.

I don't think I get whole-body spasms. It mostly seems to just be my right side. I get them all the time and not just when I'm cold. It only lasts a couple of seconds.

I have this happen all the time. For me I think it has to do with overthinking and not getting enough oxygen to my brain. I will overwork my brain and then feel a surge that starts at my brain and travels down my body usually provoking arm or leg shutters for a few seconds. I notice that just before it happens it's as if my brain starts shutting down, then the surge acts as a reset button to bring neural activity back to a steady state. I dunno maybe i'm far off but thats all I got.

I get them and they tend to be pretty random. They seem based around my spine and i get the urge to do it, but if i do it the urge goes away. I can't really stop myself from doing it though, like some of you. It usually last a few seconds, and most who know me know i do it and don't think much of it, but if someone doesn't know me I suppose it may seem a bit odd, and i usually try to pass it off as nothing.

Yep, all the time. I get them all the time, and I find them oddly comforting, since it [usually] means that everything is going at least somewhat normally.