Idk how I know but sometimes, when I am sleeping I feel my body or limbs shake like I am having seizure. I can't stop it or wake up. What is happening?

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A 30-year-old female asked about a female:

1mo baby moves erratically side by side while asleep, bending and extending limbs, eyes moving, and kinda whimpering. Could this be seizures? Scared

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A female asked:

After waking to go to my baby I blacked out, fell down, and limbs began to shake uncontrollably. Low blood pressure or seizure? Has happened before.

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A member asked:

I have an avm over my primary and secondary motor cortex focal seizures to right upper extremities didn't show on EEG . Why not?

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A 41-year-old female asked:

Eeg normal. Had facial and limb twitching during eeg. History of convulsion after head injury. No history of epilepsy so far. Any ideas of cause?

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A 43-year-old member asked:

I still have little jerks after a seizure, should I be concerned?

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A 47-year-old member asked:

Could a person have a "seizure" that doesn't cause convulsions, jerking or staring?

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A 59-year-old male asked:

Chill like full body jerks after head injury and staring spells are they seizures. They all started after head injury

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A 21-year-old female asked:

I have epilepsy and am taking lamictal, but anytime im woken during the night I jerk and have seizures.I need help bc I have an infant?

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A 19-year-old male asked:

I heard that jerk before sleep is normal and not seizure. But i have jerk before falling asleep and my eeg is abnormal. How could it be?

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A 22-year-old male asked:

What kind of condition is this? I keep having either motor tics or seizures. My whole body stiffens and jerks. My chest feels heavy and I let out a groaning noise which I can't seem to control. During this time I bite my cheek uncontrollably?

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A 37-year-old member asked:

What do you advise if i still have little jerks after a seizure?

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A 25-year-old male asked about a 31-year-old female:

A lady at work has been experiencing dizziness, fainting, uncontrollable shaking, and has had a mild seizure. Any ideas on what is causing this?

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A 41-year-old member asked:

If someone jerks head a couple of times and has eyes roll back then unconscious is it seizure or fainting?

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A 40-year-old female asked about a female:

Can be going on about her day normal then she goes into a stare for a couple seconds..her mouth jerks a little and her eyes do also..is this seizures??

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A 34-year-old female asked:

Fetal position leg jerks could i be having a seizure or would it be rls?

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A 33-year-old member asked:

How much jerking do you have to do before you call it a tonic-clonic seizure?

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A 50-year-old female asked:

My son has seizures once a month usually in the morning his body jerks eyes roll what type of seizure is that he's on meds ?

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A 24-year-old female asked about a female:

My daughter is having many episodes of myoclonic jerking when awake but EEGs and MRIs are normal. Could it still be seizures?

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A 28-year-old female asked:

Think i might have simple partial seizures have anxiety attack a lot and sometimes i jerk when i'm sleeping its not a lot but it is enough wake me up?

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A 43-year-old female asked about a female:

How to tell if myoclonic jerks are a seizure my child has these all through the night some nights but how to tell what's normal from myoclonic epileps?

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A female asked:

Are myclonic jerks actually seizures?

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A 22-year-old female asked:

Can you do anything to help calm myo colonic Jerk seizures.

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A 24-year-old female asked:

July 5th CT scan for headaches.It was normal. 5 days later jerks when trying to sleep.Now think I'm having brief seizures at night.No history of seizu?

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A 33-year-old male asked:

I have jerks every now and again but have not had a seizure in years. I had a scan, it shows I still have it. How can I control jerks without meds?

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A 21-year-old female asked:

Should I worry about hypnic jerks? They still happen to me occasionally, & the first time it happened, I thought it was a seizure. Is it fine?

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A male asked:

My wife says when I'm sleeping she noticed seizure like activity, she says my head shake and bottle and at times my arms jerk?

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