Arm Muscle Bounces/Spasms

[mooeypoo]

Hi guys

 

Lately I've been having a very weird thing happening to my arm muscles; every now and then (and quite often) it starts spasming and "bouncing" visibly. It doesn't hurt, it's just extremely uncomfortable. Like when you have your eyelid bounce up and down due to stress (or I was told its due to stress..).

 

I've tried to figure out if there's something that might get me stressful, but there shouldn't be anything majorly stressing now in comparison to last month, say.

 

I've tried to rub them, stretch them, work them out a bit, and it keeps coming back, whenever i put my arm to rest.

 

Anyone knows why this happens? Is it stress or should I stretch my muscle in a different way?

 

Help, this is bothering the heck out of me, and plus people at work start noticing it (it's actually bouncing up and down! aa!!) and laugh at me constantly.

 

I have to admit it does look funny.. but.. yeah. It's not. help.

 

~moo

[intothevoidx]

Doctor? It's probably not serious, but why take chances? Someone I know recently had a similar problem and they never diagnosed it. The doctors thought it could be anything from a rib pinching a nerve to thoracic outlet syndrome.

[ecoli]

This happens to me from time to time. Once I saw my bicep muscle jump by itself pretty far because of the artery that was pulsing.

 

Just relax for now. If it is recurrent, see a doctor.

[silkworm]

It happens to me too. Do you smoke?

[Phi for All]

Lately I've been having a very weird thing happening to my arm muscles; every now and then (and quite often) it starts spasming and "bouncing" visibly.

If you could get it to move into your chest you could make a fortune in tips at Rick's Cabaret, moo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK, sorry, just a thought....

[mooeypoo]

Haha!

 

But nah, Phi, it's a lot better when you can control it and bounce it in style

 

 

 

Silkworm, actually I do smoke.. err.. but I smoked before this started happenning.. a WHILE before .. any connection?

 

Anyone knows if it has anyhting to do with the fact that I'm a very bad slob? Perhaps excercise has anything to do with it?

 

~moo

[Igor Suman]

" Myoclonus is brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles. It describes a symptom and, generally, is not a diagnosis of a disease. The myoclonic twitches or jerks are usually caused by sudden muscle contractions; they also can result from brief lapses of contraction. Contractions are called positive myoclonus; relaxations are called negative myoclonus. The most common time for people to encounter them is while falling asleep ("sleep starts"), but myoclonic jerks are also a symptom of a number of neurological disorders. Hiccups are also a kind of myoclonic jerk specifically affecting the diaphragm.

 

Myoclonic jerks may occur alone or in sequence, in a pattern or without pattern. They may occur infrequently or many times each minute. Most often, myoclonus is one of several symptoms in a wide variety of nervous system disorders such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. "

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoclonus