Body humming/vibrations?

It's funny how you said about the getting shocked thing...last night I was Christmas shopping, and I was getting zapped worse than I've ever been...it was actually painful a few times.  Isn't this all so weird?!  The best part, though, is knowing that you're not alone, and not "crazy"!!

Here is my two cents on all of this,

In my early 20s I would, when under stress, get this feeling of someone pouring a pitcher of ice cold water over my head and it slowly dripping down INSIDE my body.  Doctor asked me if I used recreational drugs; found a new doctor.  By my 30s, I would experience burning brain where it felt like the area covering the brain, under my scalp, would suddenly be on fire, again when I was stressed.

November 11, 2004 is the day that all hell broke loose.  For years prior I was having muscle spasms and cramps in my intestines for no apparent reason along with what felt like lightening bolts hitting in various places on my body.  Any doctor I sought help from would just look at me as though I was a basket case and I was dismissed as having anxiety.  The cramps were so bad that I looked like the scene where the ‘thing’ crawls out in the movie The Alien. You could see the flesh and the muscles undulating all over my body and then yes, I did have a full blown panic attack that ended up with my husband calling 911. Skipping through several hours of tests to a very kind young doctor sitting on the edge of my bed and telling me, “You are not nuts, I have seen this once before.  You have a very hyper-active CNS and you are having muscle fasciculations.”  He left a personal phone call in my neuro’s voice mail that I needed to be seen ASAP.

The next day I was in his office, he did CNS and EMG and told me he agreed with the ER physician and to remember that no matter how often they came or even how badly they could hurt, to remember, that they were not deadly.  That humans have 3 types of muscles, smooth, skeletal and cardiac and that cardiac muscles did not have fasciculations.  

I asked why they were worse when I laid down at night and tried to sleep and he told me that all day long my hyper CNS was just humming along happily doing its thing and that I had for the most part either learned to tune it out, live with it or it was so subtle that I didn’t notice it. At night, it continued on but now I noticed it more because I didn’t have the distractions of daily life.  I will be honest and say it took me a good 2 years to believe I wasn’t dying, a freak of nature or going stark raving mad.  Once I accepted that my body operated outside the norm, it became my new normal. 

I have eliminated nearly all caffeine from my diet; I have one soda a day, down from a high years ago of at least 6 to 8.  I avoid additives, packaged and processed foods and honestly, it hasn’t changed the fasciculations but it has given me a sense of control over the situation that I am doing what’s best for me.  I have also found that when the vibrations, muscle movements or the humming feeling starts, if I get up and move about for a few minutes, it seems to short circuit the issue.  Good luck and know you are not alone.

Yrsilly, thanks for asking about my issues.

about fifteen months ago, I woke up with swollen lymph nodes and burning pain and tingling over a good portion of my body.  Because the worst pain and burning was in my armpits and behind and in my breasts, my primary doc ordered a mammogram and an ultrasound of my left armpit area.  This came back showing no breast cancer, but four "reactive" (as opposed to cancerous) lymph nodes.

My "case" eventually got to my rheumatologist (I have RA, so I was already established with a rheumy.)  After many blood tests, she's been unable to find anythng amiss.  My symptoms lessened after a few months, and over the summer were almost gone, but this Fall they returned, although not to their former intensity...I'm left with burning under my armpits, in my chest area, and below my butt-cheeks that varies in intensity with how much I do physically and how tired I am.  Most of the areas of my body not affected by the burning sensations feel swollen and tingly/mild burning (but they don't appear swollen).

My rheumy says that since this doesn't appear to be progressive, and she can't (or won't...grrrrr!) order more tests, she said she's content to treat the symptoms, which consisted of prescribing gabapentin.  (She compared me to another patient of hers who came in and had a small area of pain that was in a different location every day, and asked me "What was I supposed to do with that?)  My pain varies in intensity, but it's in the same places every day...I didn't think that was a fair comparison.

I asked her if she believed in fibro, and she said yes, but continued with "If what you have is fibromyalgia, it's the weirdest case I've ever seen."     I know most fibro sufferers don't start off with swollen lymph nodes, but I've corresponded with some who did. 

She did order a follow-up ultrasound of my left armpit, which showed "only" one node swollen, but the burning and swollen sensations persist, and they are worse if I don't get enough rest or I over-exert myself.  After months of online research, fibro is still the closest I can come to an answer.

Again, thanks for asking about my issues--I didn't mean to get so long-winded, but since this was something that changed over time, I wanted to give a bit of background.