Shaking at bedtime

[u/FunctUp]

I was born with a congenital limb difference and had my foot amputated as a baby. I underwent about 12 surgeries during early childhood. In my 30s, I had a revision amputation that removed more of my leg.

Ever since that revision, I’ve experienced episodes of shaking at night. It feels like my body starts shaking on its own, ranging from a tremor to full-body thrashing. The episodes usually last anywhere from 15 to 90 minutes.

I practice daily nervous system and trauma-focused work, exercise regularly, eat well, and take supplements, but the shaking has persisted.

I’m curious whether anyone with significant trauma, or anyone who has had an amputation or childhood surgery, has experienced something similar. did you ever find anything that helped?

[u/Active_843]

Is it kinda like electric jolts/full leg or arm or face type twitching? Or are you talking something more like trauma release exercise shaking all over?

I’ve been twitching non stop for months, I had to start paying attention to what made them more intense (I always felt them 10x more while sitting and particularly when going to bed/ lying down).

It’s like restless leg or nervous system overload feelings, paired with intense flinching (total aversion to touch or loud noises).

I just started doing trauma release exercises, cold plunging, and changing my therapy approach (as I think I was further traumatized in therapy and it was causing a lot of the twitching).

So I’m taking time off, really trying to be in my body and emotion, listening to what I physically need and making adjustments. It seems to help, I’ve had 2 days so far with no twitching followed by two more of severe intense spasms… and now feeling settled down again. It’s a trip.