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Fasciculations and Myoclonic Jerks
Sun, 01/14/2007 - 15:54Topic: Women With Epilepsy
I am new here. I would like to know the difference between fasciculations and myoclonic Jerks?
Re: Fasciculations and Myoclonic Jerks
Submitted by wldhrt13 on Tue, 2007-01-16 - 21:15
I am no neurologist but here goes my explanation as I have had both of them. Fascics feel like popcorn going off underneath my skin, they are visible to the eye meaning you can see the twitching. Myokemia feels similar to fascics;like when your sometimes the muscles around your eye flickers repetively, like when your tired. And then myoclonic jerks are like a fast instant lightening bolt of energy that goes to one place in your body, arm, leg and makes it involuntarily jerk, the same way as your knee jerks when the doctor taps it with a hammer, my myclonic jerks are pretty forceful, enough so where my limb rises up almost 6 inches to a foot in the air! this link may be helpful too: http://www.medhelp.org/perl6/neuro/archive/10525.html http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/myokymia.html I take a B-12 supplement (methylcobalamine) which helps with twitches and improves nerve function. it's water soluable which makes it harder to overdose it into your system; the body excretes what it doesn't need through the urine. ~pamela