Body humming/vibrations?

Um, ok, I just woke up at 6am with this very strong vibration in my chest. I have been diagnised with fibromyalgia since 1999. I have it well under controll. Anyway, I am in the medical field and the chest vibrations scared me to the point of waking my husband to take mr to the ER for heart attack. I deciced to look online to see what else it could possibly be first since I don't have any other symptoms. I am so glad I found this. I can't really say I have had this before, except I get in my eye when I am tired or stressed out. I thought it was a tic. Does anyone else get just in chest?

There is so much to read here and I am feeling overwhelmed by it all. I had no idea other people felt this too. I have never spoken to anyone about it other than randomly saying out loud on occasion, "oh I must be really tired my body is humming/vibrating again". Of the few that have heard me say it, they look at me odd and say, "What do you mean your "body is vibrating""?

Tonight I mentioned to a friend that I have been getting goosebumps on my right thigh for the past 2 days. He thought it weird but then added that his body vibrates sometimes. I about freaked out because I had never heard anyone else say that. I thought it is some weird thing that I just THINK I feel but that I don't really. I couldn't wait to go home and google this symptom because if he felt that too then there must be others.

In reading many of the posts here, it sounds like many of you get the icy patches sensation like cold water running down you too.

So here is my question, and I am hoping someone is kind enough to reply, would one of you mind reading my symptoms and telling me if they are consistent with this disease or not? Or if some of them are? I've had a lot of health problems recently and reading many of these posts are just making me more sad and defeated. In fact, I am tearing up as I type over the thought of having to battle this as well.

1)I will get goosebumps on only a small patch of skin. Usually the front of my thighs but not both at the same time. They go away after a min. like regular goosebumps but then come back a minute later. On a day I get them, it usually goes off and on all day. I am not cold, frightened, or emotionally swept up, or hot. There is no rhyme or reason for them to come.

2)My body hums or vibrates. Not often. Random once again. But it doesn't localize in my chest like I've read here. It is an all over body sensation. It feels just like described in this thread. And I do not suffer from anxiety or panic attacks... except when I have to go to child custody battles but that's to be expected ;) haha

3)I get zings of icy cold. It definitely feels like a white hot nerve. I'll get that in random places.

4)My whole life I've always said that it is never perfectly quiet. I can always hear a dog pitched high noise or a buzz or even sometimes a high pitched loud ringing in my ears. But it's not ringing like a phone. It's a constant monotone high note. I'm so used to it now and tired of talking about it all through high school and people telling me there is no noise, that I don't notice it really anymore. I used to believe I could hear the high pitch coming off the telephone wires or something.

5)I read somewhere here that their hips hurt. I get that when I run.

6)Huge sensitivity to ice. The doctors can never ice my hands or feet because they will become numb for a day or too and have hypothermia symptoms.

OK thank you for reading and I will be grateful for any reply. I simply don't have the time to weed through all the posts. And I also want to say how nice it is that all of you help each other here and that I don't feel so weird anymore.

Hello Holly D and model Doe--glad you found us!

Model Doe, I don't think that only having the sensations you describe means you have fibro, but if you read what Sherrine suggested, it should give you a good idea of whether you might.

As my doctor said "fibro has a big umbrella", meaning that many many symptoms can fall under the heading of fibromyalgia, but if you don't have pain accompanying any of the sensations you describe, I don't think it's fibro, but do be sure to read the Fibro 101 thread--it's a great place to get a lot of info without having to search for everything. 

Holly D, when I have by body humming/vibrations, I only feel them when I lie down, and eventually they go away...I don't have the stop-and-start that you describe, but I know many others do.  Let us know what your doctor says when you mention it!

Hope to see you both again, and best of luck to you!

It is so nice to know that I am not the only one that has that earthquake feeling from time to time. I have been afraid to tell family about the feeling for fear that they might think that I have gone off the deep end.

This is amazing. I had no idea others had experienced my symptoms.

Before I start this, I want to assure everyone that I am quite balanced and sane, even though the stories don't sound like it.

I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia after a spinal injury about six years ago, but the body vibrations started years before that.

I have experienced most, but not all, of the symptoms described on this thread.
When I was younger, I couldn't wear a regular watch since they would speed up or slow down randomly. I ruined one of my friend's watch when he bet me that it wouldn't happen to his watch. It never ran correctly after I wore it for a day. I can wear electronic watches without any problem. Only mechanical watches go haywire. But, this was when I was about 14, about 50 years ago, long before I had any neurological damage that I knew of.

Lately, and by that I mean for the past 15 years or so, I have been experiencing body vibrations. For the most part, they are full body vibrations where they would start, increase in intensity until it is almost frightening, then abruptly stop. I now sort of enjoy them, since I know they will peak and then stop without any damage to me. This happens randomly with no pattern I can detect. When it happens, it will usually start with a weak one and then occur several more times, with each getting more intense. It happens when I am in bed.

I still remember how the vibrations started, and this is going to sound crazy. It woke me up at about 4:00 am. It was like a wave starting at my feet, travelling up to my head, then back down to my feet. It seemed to bounce back and forth between my feet and my head. That happened only once that I can remember.

Then full body vibrations started waking me up along with a rushing sound in my ears. The vibrations and the rushing sound would increase until I felt like I was going through a tunnel, and I would get extremely frightened and keep myself from "going through the tunnel." Then one night I decided that I would go through the tunnel the next time it happened. I did go through the tunnel, and of course nothing happened. The vibration and the rushing sound stopped. With one exception, the feeling of going through the tunnel stopped. That was about 15 years ago.

Once in a while, the opposite occurs, where for a second or so, all vibration in my body quits. Suddenly my body is completely quiet. It is like everything stops, then starts again. It is actually a very interesting feeling, but I didn't associate it to the full body vibrations until I read a post from someone who has also experienced the vibration stopping.

Now my hips hurt so badly at night that I wake up almost every night due to the pain. Sometimes it is the left hip, sometimes the right, but very seldom both. It doesn't matter which side I sleep on. The hip that hurts will hurt no matter if I am sleeping on my back, my left or my right side.

And for a couple of years I would feel a vibration on my right hip as though my phone is vibrating. This usually happens when I am driving so I figure it is due to sitting in the car seat too long.

I got tested for Lyme disease, but it came back negative.

There is more to the story but it gets weirder.

I just find it amazing, and sort of comforting, that others have experienced these things as well.

Hi kimliz59,

Thanks for the welcome. The other experiences are more in the metaphysical realm, energy body type stuff. I have had so many metaphysical experiences throughout my life that I just sort of accepted the body vibrations as another aspect of whatever has been happening since I was old enough to remember.

I am just pleased to know that other people have experienced similar things to what I have, whatever the source.

These other experiences are probably not appropriate for this site, too woo-woo.

Like I wrote earlier, I have affected mechanical watches all my life. It turns out that I also seem to have some connection to electrical devices, which is why I became an analog design engineer. I just seem to automatically know what is wrong with circuits and how to fix them. This happens even for circuits I have never studied. I just sort of know. Don't know how to explain it but it did eventually lead me to build and manage an engineering department in a large, well known, personal computer corporation.

Thanks again for the welcome.

kimliz59,

Now that I know others are experiencing these things, I am wondering what the mechanism is behind all of this. I wonder if there is some common thread or if there is something in common.

I forgot to mention feeling earthquakes. Several times I believed I have felt earthquakes at night and even heard the house creak when they happen. I would get out of bed check the USGS site to see if there were any tremors in the area. Only one time did I find that a small tremor occurred in the area. The other times, nothing. My cats are always freaked out when this happens, like they felt it too.

I will look at more posts before mentioning the other things I hear and experience around the house at night. Really weird phenomena that, like with the earthquakes, even upset my cats. But when I check around the house, nothing!

These things always happen at night. I am starting to wonder what is really going on.

OMG!! I feel so validated right now....

I too have these weird vibrations that go through my body and last for days at a time. I have told some people about it, and they just look at me all weird, like I am on drugs or something! I also get random goosebumps and feel extremely cold in that area. I often have the feeling of bugs or something crawling on me, which I was seriously hoping was not a symptom of schizophrenia, as my son has it, and he had to have gotten it from someone...

I have noticed the humming sensation too...for the most part I don't notice it but when I lay down quietly its quite annoying. It seems to be a constant thing for the most part but every so often it will stop for a few seconds/minutes and it is just the best feeling in the world. I usually just stop whatever I'm doing to enjoy how peaceful my body feels for those few moments. I really wish I could figure out how to make those moments last longer.

Hi stin,

I suspect it has something to do with our adrenal glands. I believe that fibromyalgia is similar to PTSD, I also believe mine is the result of being under constant stress in a bad marriage for 20+ years. I didn't even realize that I was in fight or flight mode 24/7 until he moved out. For me I think my adrenal glands were working overtime all that time and no longer no how to shut off. I know I don't have a normal response anymore when I should be having a rush of adrenaline, like when I almost fall off a ladder or something frightens me. Someday when I have time I'm going to do some heavy duty research into adrenal fatigue and try some of the treatments and see if it helps with all the fibro symptoms. Do you have any thoughts on the humming?

Hi shannahsmom and almost medfree,

This is rather interesting as I was also in an abusive relationship, but it was "only" for six years. My ex wife was very emotionally abusive to the point where I was showing signs of PTSD, and I could not ever relax. I also could not sleep more than an hour or two a night due to the stress. We went to a marriage counselor who recommended to me that I leave the marriage for my own health, both mental and physical. And I too developed fibro and went through a couple of years of therapy.

Since I also had a back injury, I always attributed the fibro only to nerve damage resulting from the back injury but I am wondering if there was another component to it from the marriage.

My divorce was several years ago and it wasn't until about six months ago that I was able to start relaxing. Up until that marriage, I never thought I could get into, and stay in, an abusive relationship.

I look forward to meeting a woman whom I feel I can trust.

There are times when I think that the vibrations that come on me and increase in intensity, along with an increasingly loud sound of wind or water rushing is my soul trying to get free from my body. The last time this happened, a couple of weeks ago, the experience was extremely intense and it was on a day when the fibro seemed to be peaking. It was a very bad day physically and while laying down and waking up from a brief nap, the strong vibrations occurred.

I really don't know what to think of it, but for me, while being frightened, after it is over, I find that I wish I could do it again, but stronger.

We do have the abusive relationships in common.

The intense vibrations started before I got married and before my back injury, though.

When they first started, they would wake me up at about 4:00 in the morning and it seemed that I was on the verge of passing through a type of doorway or through a tunnel. I was going to allow myself to "go through the tunnel" one time, but stopped due to hearing what I interpreted as angry dogs on the other side. I felt that if I had gone through that time, it would have been very bad for me. I did allow myself to go through the tunnel once but nothing happened.

Around that time I was also frequently getting woken up at exactly 3:00 a.m. to the sound of someone knocking on a door. It was not a real door, and the sound of the door knock was never the same twice in a row. The sound always seemed to come from next to me, like there was a door next to my bed. This went on for years.

Somehow my intuitive sense seems to relate these experiences to one another. Don't know why.

As I write this, I realize for the first time that the doorway theme is common in these experiences. I will have to give this a think.

Stin, check out dreammoods.com.