Falling Asleep Tremors

why would you link this to anxiety? I get these, and it's so obvious to me they are organic in nature. I am having a hard time getting help, diagnostics or treatment because doctors always lazily say, it's anxiety. Sure, they cause some anxiety, as would having a broken foot! I think it's something to do with nerve inflammation or CNS disruption, but we'll probably never know, because doctors just say, "anxiety, bye." (like they do with many invisible symptoms.)

by any chance, when you experiencing the tremors, do you happen to see phosphenes?

I'm experiencing something similar right now. Although it might not be every single night, they are pretty frequent. I've recently suffered panic attacks and am dealing with anxiety. Ever since this started I would have nights where I dose off and soon wake up with anxiety in my chest, heart beating fast and have these tremors where I shake and feel like I'm vibrating. I've gotten a bit more used to this. Every time this happens I try to focus on my breathing, slow it down and literally focus just on my breath. How the breathing feels, how my chest and stomach moves and focusing on the inhalation and exhalation. This has helped me, even though I can wake up plenty of times, I've gotten more used to it and can fall asleep after a few times.

I have this too, and I noticed it didn't happen when I slept away from home one night this week. I wonder if it has to do with toxins in my mattress. I bought a new mattress in January and this started happening in February.

hi ive got health anxiety also with all the same symptoms as you but I keep thinking its lung cancer I've been feeling so worried about it and been to my gp and hospital 4 times about it they keep telling me its anxiety

i am a 38 yr old generally healthy woman. since the laat week of August i have been suffering from crippling insomnia caused by Tremors. at first, i wasnt sure what was keeping me up, i thought it was a fast pulse in my throat and felt very hyper alert even though i was exhausted my brain would not slow down/shut off. sounds like anxiety right? but i have never suffered from anxiety in my life. i have however always been a light sleeper and thats definitely not helping me here. fast forward to mid september i caught (vaccinated breakthrough) covid thats when what was happening to me at night became very noticeable as a tremor. it became apparent inner vibrating sometimes very strong mostly in my head upper neck but lately radiating throughout me. this feels like one of those hand held back massagers going off inside me. the worse the tremors get the less i sleep the less i sleep the more anxiety i get about not being able to sleep. every otc sleep aid has failed me. nothing works. i just lay awake vibrating and feeling severe anxiety about it. it got so bad im feeling the vibrating during the day as well but mostly when i sit. i dont notice it when im up moving around being active. i finally saw a dr who took me seriously and got a referral to a neurologist my appt is set for Oct 19. this dr prescribed me a beta blocker which somewhat helps but doesnt fully get rid of the tremor just lessens the intensity. i told her as annoying as the tremor is, its the loss of sleep associated with it that is really affecting me. last night, i forgot to take the beta blocker so the tremor was quite severe and i had a weird feeling i never had before of my feet being ice cold. i took a Unisom sleep gel that did nothing for me whatsoever. after breaking down and crying at 1:30 am because i am so exhausted and cant sleep, i returned to the dr this morning and told her i cant deal with not sleeping anymore. she gave me a prescription for Lunesta but told me its very addictive and i can only take it once a week. so maybe i can now sleep at least one night a week. if it works. i just hope the neuro can figure out whats going on because i feel like i cant go on like this anymore.

hi , I'm London .

I just came across all of your posts and couldn't believe i was reading so much of what I'm experiencing ; my symptoms actually started in my brain and were very intermittent , so for a long time i feared it was perhaps a seizure . i have had seizures in the past, years ago, so i pretty much knew this wasn't the same but it was infrequent and i had other health issues and let it slide. at the beginning of 2021 I started feeling these weird vibrations in my heels and fingers but my neurosurgeon acted like he had never heard of such ( incompetent like so many others I have experiences) . THEN, , upon falling asleep at night the internal tremors would wake me just as i would drift off at night and were so awful from entire body to my brain, that it felt as if i had to get up and stand and walk otherwise my brain and chest would implode ! its terrifying ! THEN , in October , for 2 straight weeks it never stopped , 24/7 , and was painful as well . i couldn't lay flat or close my eyes for two weeks so my neurologist admitted me into hospital for mris of brain , cervical spine, and lower spine . i had a stroke a year prior which i knew about already and i felt it was due to a spinal surgery that went very wrong just a month earlier in 2019. i was already told this couldn't be the cause of tremors . HOWEVER, my cervical spine has problems STILL and a lesion was found on mri , but was told this probably wasn't the cause! sooo frustrating and upsetting ! i begged my other doctors to do tests while i was in the hospital for a week bc i had problems while there for mris , but every darn doctor just said they would wait to see how neurology tests went first! i knew it was possible it was not neurological , and the suffering im enduring and the doctors witnessed me endure was just cruel on their part . i will say that i waa put on xanax to calm my body down , but my neurologist has prescribed it bc until we know what is causing this the xanax seems to minimize the internal tremors , but doesn't stop them. i do not think that this is relatwd to stress , but i do know that stress definitely makes it worse and can help to pay some role in it. STRESS AND ANXIETY PLAY A ROLE IN ALL PHYSICAL AILMENTS AND MAKE THEM WORSE. I also have fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis and stress plays a major role in both . i am waiting to see endocrinologist about thyroid bcTSH levels r high , and other doctors until i have answers. perhaps some of you on here do have anxiety related internal tremors , and if u no longer have them i am so happy for u . for me though, as i sit here in bes, every time i try to physically lay flat on the bed the tremors become so intense i can't stay flat . SO, the fact my body internally vibrates worse just from a position , it is not anxiety ... its pressure , painful at times in areas and physically impossible to lay flat. anyone out there feeling the same id love to hear from u:)

I've been getting these, too! I recently went through a bad anxiety flare which seems to have brought them on. I first noticed them during the extreme fear I was feeling during high anxiety and they were internal vibrations inside my body in chest (?) Then if I was walking in the mall or a store, I became overwhelmed and it felt like the ground was shaking under my feet. Even if I sat down it felt like the ground shaking but I guess it was my body vibrating.

Now, I think I am past the flare and constant fight or flight mode I was in but upon falling asleep and mainly waking up, I feel my body vibrating. After a few minutes of getting out of bed and going into the bathroom or downstairs, they are gone.

At first it concerned me greatly, but now I'm not worried and just accept it as something my body or nervous system is working through. I am trusting my body and allowing it to do what it needs to and maybe they'll go away at some point. My doctors don't seem concerned in the slightest and are attributing it to anxiety and nervous system.

So many of us have internal vibrations from what I read online. I'm sure we're fine.