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Posted 4/10/2019 4:19 AM (GMT -5)
So, I’m curious as to if any of you experience this... so, I still work full time in a prison and sometimes at work (I work midnight-8 not any inmate movement) I’ll kick back in a computer chair and catch a quick nap, I’ll wake up not in a panic at all.. but I am shaking so uncontrollably... full body, it’s like my body is flooded with adrenaline.. I don’t do this when I get a large amount of sleep.. only if I’m awaken after a short period of sleep.. what could this be? Is the autonomic dysfunction causing this? Does any of you experience this?
Posted 4/10/2019 5:01 AM (GMT -5)
yup I get this every single day.. its very annoying. I thought I had parkinsons for the longest time... I have no idea what it is.. hopefully someone can come and shed some light on this for us
Posted 4/10/2019 5:07 AM (GMT -5)
I get this too if I'm woken up before I quite fall asleep. Don't know why.
Posted 4/10/2019 6:57 AM (GMT -5)
It wakes me up in the early morning, so probably a similar dynamic because it sounds like it happens to us all when we're in a shallow place in our sleep cycles. It's obnoxious. I keep a pulse oximeter and EKG unit by my bed and everything tests normally, so I think it must be autonomic nervous system dysfunction. I too hope someone else has more insight into perhaps how to prevent it or into the mechanics involved.
Posted 4/10/2019 2:10 PM (GMT -5)
For the longest time I was woken up in the morning with shivers...and if I moved the back of my head on the pillow it would send shivers down my spine.

These same shivers will happen periodically if I’m stimulated emotionally - ie hearing a good song will do it.


I can happily declare that I do not wake in the morning with them anymore!!!
I still have them during the the day/evening sometimes - watched American Idol a couple days ago and I was a shivering mess.

My LLMD did say I had limbic “irritability “ when we were discussing that.

I used to think it was an adrenal/cortisol “thing” but now I believe it to be CNS derived.
Posted 4/10/2019 2:18 PM (GMT -5)
If I woke up in prison I think I would do this too... Sorry I could not resist.

You might try taking your blood sugar when its happening.
Posted 4/10/2019 9:01 PM (GMT -5)
I totally had this exact symptom for a while. It was while I was withdrawing from benzos.
Posted 4/11/2019 1:32 AM (GMT -5)
So happy to read this ! I have this symptom every single morning for nearly 3 years. It happens when I wake up and fall asleep again for a short period. All my body shake for 30s or 1 min.
It is not painful but not pleasant at all.

I didn t take any benzo in the beginning of that, and when I began to take some, it stopped for a while. Same thing with the lyrica. Now with the tolerance, it again happens every morning. I definitively think it is CNS related.
Posted 4/11/2019 6:52 PM (GMT -5)
Most definitely CNS dysfunction - too much sympathetic nervous system activity, not enough PNS
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