Twitching and Shaking at Night

[hope]

Me again...

Four months off Paxil, 1.5 months off Lexapro, tapering off of Temazepam (restoril). Last couple of nights I've had some twitches along with being unable to sleep well. Last night before bed I started to feel kind of out of it, I went to bed and felt like I was busting out of my skin, then I started shaking and twitching like crazy. Scared the %&*! out of my husband who wanted to take me to the ER. I broke down and took .5 of Ativan. I could still feel the shaking as I dozed off. This morning I still have a little trembling. I called my shrink today and he said he had no idea what was causing it. Restoril is supposedly easy to get off of. But then Paxil doesn't have withdrawal either does it. What is going on?

[kellyh]

That seems like so many meds to me, if you do not mind me asking, was it all the same physician who put you on them and are they all for the same thing?

[hope]

The lexapro was to help with the paxil withdrawal symptoms. I didn't take them at the same time. The restoril was for sleep. I couldn't sleep after stopping the paxil or the lexapro.

[kellyh]

Was this under the same physician? This is just for personal knowledge, I am a nursing student who graduates soon and i HATE seeing people overmedicated, especially if there are other methods that can help them effectively. I am also Canadian, and as you know, we have a good health care system here, and drugs are much cheaper here than the US. COuldn't imagine the price you'd pay

[Scott]

Was this under the same physician? This is just for personal knowledge, I am a nursing student who graduates soon and i HATE seeing people overmedicated
my psychiatrist had me on
buspar 93'
paxil 93'
xanax 93-03''
prozac 94-97''
serzone 97a'
effexor 97b'
luvox 98-2000'
(i fired him)
md put me on paxil to get off xanax 2000-03''

so yeah its common

[hope]

I first went to my primary care after I took 2.5 months taper off 10 mg. He didn't know crap and was pushing more drugs on me so I quit going to him. Saw another doctor in the hospital who started buspar and lexapro (was withdrawing really bad)... Had to find a doctor on our health plan but couldn't get an appt so went to one out of our health plan and she was no help, but put me on xanax and ativan for sleep, still having withdrawal so I quit going to her. Went to another one after I quit the xanax and ativan and he put me on restoril and tried me on a few other little pills to get the whole thing under control. I was under pressure to get back to work so I was pretty desperate, plus I was basically nonfunctional at that point. Finally said the heck with doctors and have been tapering myself off stuff since. Never made it back to work.

But back to my original question. Anyone know why these shakes and twitches resurfaced after a couple of months???

I swear these people on this board can't stay on a topic for nuthin. You'd think they were having trouble focusing or something. :wink:

[hope]

I first went to my primary care after I took 2.5 months taper off 10 mg. He didn't know crap and was pushing more drugs on me so I quit going to him. Saw another doctor in the hospital who started buspar and lexapro (was withdrawing really bad)... Had to find a doctor on our health plan but couldn't get an appt so went to one out of our health plan and she was no help, but put me on xanax and ativan for sleep, still having withdrawal so I quit going to her. Went to another one after I quit the xanax and ativan and he put me on restoril and tried me on a few other little pills to get the whole thing under control. I was under pressure to get back to work so I was pretty desperate, plus I was basically nonfunctional at that point. Finally said the heck with doctors and have been tapering myself off stuff since. Never made it back to work.

But back to my original question. Anyone know why these shakes and twitches resurfaced after a couple of months???

I swear these people on this board can't stay on a topic for nuthin. You'd think they were having trouble focusing or something. :wink:

[genevieve]

hi!
hope, yes, this "shaking experience" seems really frigthful! I am not a doctor, but if you are ACTUALLY trying to stop restoril, it could be that, dont you thing? any drug when you stop it can cause withdrawal -benzo are known to cause withdrawal. It could still be from the paxil too. Yes, 4 months is a long time, but I still have symptoms after 6 months so why not? and lexapro : I dont know this drug but... So it could be any of these 3 drugs and it is hard to tell. I guess the only way to be "reassure" is to get a check up from time to time. The doctor will tell you, hopefully, that "everything is okay, maybe it is your anxiety/depression/etc that is coming back"... and we all know what that means : "maybe it is anxiety/depression, but maybe you just need time to heal and these symptoms will eventually go away".

But before we feel 100% good, or even 90% good, we have to take every day that is "a good day" and enjoy it. I find it pretty hard to do, but I am trying!

[hope]

I think that the shaking is from cutting back on the Restoril. It gets worse at night. Last night I took the restoril later and I felt the shaking coming on before I took it. I lowered the dose last night and I'm trembling a little this morning. I really want to cry. Here we go again..................................................

Hope - it DOES sound like the Restoril. But just because you're having some withdrawal doesnt mean it will be anything like as terrible as what you went through with the paxil. Fingers crossed it wears off after a few days.
Are you going to ask your chiropractor - sounds like he knows quite a lot.
Kizziex

Hope Ive just read your first note again - do you think it might have been a panic attack?

[hope]

I think there may have been a panic component in there somewhere. I'm not really sure because I never really had panic until I stopped the Paxil, and even then, I only really had 2 actual panic attacks. This just felt like uncontrollable shaking, without that hyperventilating feeling.

Hope - When I have panic attacks I dont get the hyperventalating feeling. I feel very very sick, terrified, pins and needles, freezing cold and my whole body shakes.
BTW - in one of your other notes you wrote about UTI's.
Ive been plagued by the feeling that Ive got one for the last couple of weeks (painful, affecting sleep etc, needing to go to loo all the time.)
Ive only just realised that before I took seroxat this was a real problem for me but settled down on seroxat. Just reappeared now so wondering if it has a link with anxiety/stress. Maybe the same for you?
Kizziex

[hope]

I've been wondering about the link between UTIs and the paxil or anxiety. It's driving me crazy. I really need to go right before my menstrual cycle, but I've had 4 kids. It's like a restless feeling in my legs and then I need to go to the bathroom. It wakes me up at night. It got worse for a while when I first quit the paxil, then settled down, now it seems to be back.

I also just recently had an abnormal pap result. I need to repeat it in a few months. The nurse said it was nothing to worry about. But still, with all this going on, who knows?

Hi Hope - try not to worry about pap result. Even if something eventually shows up its usually nothing major and can be sorted out quite easily. (And Im sure they wouldnt have left it for a few months for you to go back if they were overly concerned.)
Youve reminded me - Im about a year overdue to have mine.
Kizziex