Twitching and muscle spasms

I've been on Lexapro 20mg for about a year now for panic attacks. Not sure if it is still working and I'm having weird new symptoms. Since December I've been having muscle spasms and twitching in my abdomen. It is not stomach upset, just muscle twitching.

Originally it was just as I was falling asleep, then it was also in the morning, then when I am sitting, now it is just about all day long. My stomach muscles feel strained like I've done too many sit ups at this point. Sometimes they are so severe they make me cry out. I'm turning into a twitchy mess.

I spoke to my doctor (general practitioner) He said it is probably nothing and there is nothing I can do about it except take muscle relaxers, which I don't want to do. He said it is most likely not a side effect of Lexapro since it started a year into taking it.

Anyone else have this problem or have any advice on what to do. I'm scared.

I'm glad I found this site. I tried a few of the mediation videos. I will try the Progressive Muscle Relaxation. (I will try just about anything) They started out like hypnic jerks but they progressed to really painful and all the time. Some days they occur every few seconds and last on and off all day. I can have hundreds in an hour. They are definitely worse at bedtime and in the morning.

The doctor suggested a muscle relaxer but I'm really sensitive to those, they knock me out. I tried CBT and keeping a journal but there seems to be no pattern to the symptoms and no apparent connection to what I'm thinking. It didn't seem to help.

I've been reading all the stuff in the resources. I'm going to cut down on the caffeine and try the mediation and muscle relaxation exercises.

Going back to Dr at the end of the week. Lexapro was prescribed for panic attacks and it is still working for that. The twitches are new. Scared to mess with the Lexapro, but it may come to that. I don't feel anxious, stressed or worried, I feel like my body is betraying me.

Post Edited (Lubock) : 3/25/2018 6:54:48 PM (GMT-6)