Sleep troubles causing HA

[olethros]

Hey everyone, I've been experiencing some weird feelings off and on lately in the mornings, and I wanted to see if anyone knows what I'm talking about. I really could just use some reassurance because when it happens it leaves me worrying about my health for the rest of the day - I mostly think about brain tumors, although MS has crossed my mind too.  Anyway, when I wake up sometimes, it feels like there is a strange feeling in my head kind of, although I also feel it throughout other parts of my body. I've never experienced it during the day - it's only associated with sleep.

It's not painful at all - just disturbing, and it actually wakes me up. It makes me feel like I'm about to shake or something (I usually start thinking I'm about to have a seizure, although I've never had a seizure, so that probably comes from a fear of having one). I guess you might call it like a surge of something through my body, but it will last if I just lay there. If I get up out of bed however, it goes away almost instantly. As far as the feeling in my head, the best way I know to describe it is like having vertigo, except without the sensation of anything spinning or dizziness. It's just a strange, bothersome sensation towards the back of my head.

I have noticed that if I go sleep on the couch, I don't experience it, and like I said it goes away if I just get up, so I wonder if it might have something to do with my position - maybe my neck or something, I don't know. But I also thought it might be related to anxiety. All I know for sure is that it is very disturbing, and as I said before, it starts to worry me and make me think I have a brain tumor or something like that. And then I can't get back to sleep, not to mention it makes it harder to get to sleep the next night.

Anyway, any thoughts/reassurance would be welcome. Thanks!

[lauraaa]

believe it or not, i have the EXACT same problem
relieving to no im not the only one!!!!
x

[shrublet]

Hello Olethros,

I've also experienced something very, very similar when I was dealing with anxiety. Certain nights, right before I was going to sleep, I would get a surge of "something" and I simply not could stay in bed or else it would just intensify. Logically, I'd think that it's merely a surge of nervous energy- an extra squirt of adrenaline- your body is producing. Just because you're physically tired does not at all mean that your mind (and particularly your subconscious) stops bubbling away and initiating the release of stress chemicals. I used to have this feeling in my chest and wrists.

I do not at all think that it's due to a brain tumor.

[olethros]

Thanks for the responses guys!

Lauraaa, yes it is very nice to know I'm not alone in this.  It really does stink though, and I'm sorry you have to deal with it as well.

Shrublet, thanks for your response ... I actually wonder if some of the issues could be caused by dreams or something of that nature.  Of course, as you mention, my mind keeps running even as my body is resting - and this is especially the case with me.  It drives my wife nuts, but I have to sleep with some kind of noise - the tv or something that distracts me, because otherwise my thoughts will keep me up. 

These feelings were just different than others I've felt before, both in their timing (waking me up in the morning rather than shortly after sleep) and in how they felt.  I think the worst part is that it not only worries me about my health, but it's demoralizing because of how it starts the day off and it deprives me of extra sleep.  Anyway, thanks again for the reassurance guys ... it is greatly appreciated and very nice to know I'm not alone, and that people who are fine share such experiences.  :)

[lucho]

 Hey I have had something similar for the past two months. My timing is also simlar to your I feel the buzzing always after 3am and it dissapear as soon as I wake up but the feeling comes back if I go back to sleep. I describe it as as if my blood was vibrating. Doctors and naturopaths say it is common with people with anxiety but thy cant explain how is being caused.