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HELP! Buzzing feeling driving me crazy!

angie5
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Hi everyone, It feels like I put my finger in a electrical socket and I'm slowly being shocked constantly.! It's driving me crazy!. It's keeping me awake at night. I lay in bed buzzing and buzzing and buzzing. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? My Doc is sending me to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. I hear they really know what their doing, but I'm on a waiting list to get in, so in the mean time I'm stuck here buzzing. Hope to hear from someone soon Angie.

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17 replies

hopeornot

I've heard of the mayo clinic on TV.They have a great reputation.You must have a great doctor.Have they done an mri?I'm sure they have.It sounds like your nerves are disturbed.Sounds awful.Have you tried getting a good massage to help you pinpoint areas where this might be coming from?Atleast try until you get to the clinic.Or even a chiropracter?

Bets25

I could have written this. You are describing my symptoms exactly. I have been living with this feeling for several years now. I have been to a neurologist, an endocrinologist, my OBGYN and a psychiatrist. No one can figure it out. Like you it's driving me crazy and I cannot sleep without drugging myself. I'm at the end of my rope and I don't know who or where to turn to.

Angie please let me know what you found out at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. I'm desperate.

pamelaneckpain

I has that buzzing feeling for about two years. It
started out like a tiny flee buzzing through my body.
It was weird! Then it got bad. It didn't start up till
I opened my eyes in the morning. I had a procedure
where they stick electric shocks in your arms with a I can't remember what it was called.
That stopped it! It wasn't supposed to do that but it
did. Pamela
Doctors thought I was crazy when I tried to describe
it.

fhu2008

Hi, below is my post from 25 December 2008. In addition, I recommend 3 herbs that can help. After taking them, I felt better than just cleansing with the baking soda. Two remove acids from the blood and one strengthen the nervous system:

1) Calmus root - blood cleanser
2) Wood Betony - blood cleanser
3) Schisandra Berries - calms nervous system

Put a tablespoon of each in a small sauce pan, simmer for 5 min and drink one to two cups per day.

Note: Before using herbs, I recommend you educate yourself on their use.
*******************************************************
Greetings:

Reason:Buzzing feeling reduced or eliminated by neutralizing PH of body.

I too have suffered with strange buzzing feelings.

In the last week, I checked the PH level of my urine and found it to be 5.5. (I bought PH test strips from the local health food store).

Note: PH scale ranges from (acidity) 1 -> 7 (neutral) -> 14 (alkalinity). This is a log scale so every whole number change from 7 is a factor of 10.

I used a teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of water ( 3 or 4 glasses) and brought my PH to neutral in about 24 hours. Since then, I am starting to feel better, buzzing has reduced greatly (or stopped) and I am thinking more clearly.

Conclusions:

1) Being very acidic affected several body systems (in particular, central nervous system) causing buzzing.

2) Viruses, bacteria, and mold thrive in acidic environment, expressing itself in a host of different illnesses (MS symptoms, Lyme disease, etc.)

2) Bringing the body back to neutral PH has allowed my body to begin healing itself.

3) B vitamins and homeopathic meds, speeds up the healing.

4) Designing a diet to maintain a neutral PH will hopefully prevent a recurrence of the problem.

Hopefully, this information will be of help to you.

Cheers!

sallysmart

I have buzzing feeling with shocks and cramps but in my feet. I was diagnosed with neuropathy at the same time as being diagnosed with diabetes.
Neuroapthy is not only related to diabetes anymore, it is related to lyme disease, AIDS, back injury, exposure to aluminum, and now a whole rack of other diseases so if this is what you have you should try to get to the root of the problem as well as the buzzing.
I started off with buzzing and wierd feelings of shock and then pain on a constant level before I realized something was really wrong and had I gone in earlier, maybe I would have found out earlier and would have less problems now. Let us know what you find out.

Mikeangel2

I don't have buzzing throughout my body, but on bot legs on the outer side of the leg. If I happen to bump my legs in those spots (usually right off to the side of my knee area), an electric shock feeling goes down the side of my leg. I have Diabetes Type #2 and yes, my feet have tingled. I think that it could be MS symptoms (I have "benign" MS) starting up again, as it seems like it is nerve endings. From what I have read about MS, there are periods of spasming and tingling, burning. Of course, there are so many similar symptoms in these diseases that it is hard to pinpoint without tests. Doctors can do a nerve conduction study as you described that will test for any nerve damage.
Hope you soon find out an answer. I know it can be very discouraging and frustrating. I've had MS symptoms for 24 years and only diagnosed with the "benign" last year.

lovenotes2

I have a lot of the same problems and thought for a while that maybe I had developed diabetes.. but have come up clear each time I was tested. I do have some permanent spine damage which may be causing some of the electrical shocks I endure on a regular basis. They are unnerving to me. Very painful and always on one foot or the other. I did have spine surgery to correct a lot of the damage done in a domestic abuse incident but it did not stop the electrical shocks.. It has added to the other symptoms mentioned like buzzing in my ears and feeling like I laying on a vibrating bed.. So hard to sleep peacefully. I rarely sleep more than 4 hours at a time. These shocks also cause my internal organs to spasm which causes me to wake from the pain.

lovenotes2

Totally understand your frustration.. I spend so many of my waking hours trying to understand the source of my electrical shocks and the adverse affects my body experiences with static electricity.. I see that most of these posts are from several months back.. hope someone is still out there willing to discuss these problems

luckeeluke

I have the buzzing. Mine is directly/indirectly from Lyme disease. I get the buzzing/pager feeling in my legs, heels, neck/spine, scalp mostly. Had it around cheeks and mouth more a few years ago.

It comes and goes but for the better part of 2 or more years I've had that symptom. Sometimes when my other symptoms get worse, it gets worse. Sometimes when I feel better, it is more pronounced. Seems like no rhyme or reason sometimes.

BuddyPal

I have had Buzzing in my body since August 2008...
And Sleeping problems too...
The Buzzing started in my feet, then went into my legs, then 9 months later, the buzzing was in the rest of my body.... I went to alot of Dr's...They did not know the cause for this...Finally - my neurologist - prescribed a medicine called "Claritin" (This medicine is over the counter too)...I take the generic brand "Loratadine" - 10 mg's - a few hours every night before bed... The very first night that I took this.......I SLEPT a normal amount of hours........AND.......The BUZZING IS MUCH BETTER!!!

Hippiechick

OK,I HAD THIS FEELING ONCE IN MY TORSO AREA and i would only notice it at nite when i was trying to go to sleep so... the next day when i woke up i went on thee internet and i ran across a lady asking why she was vibrating and i thought yeah,thats wat it feels like well...turns out she said she was taking xanax for anxiety and unbelievably so was i,lol so the bottom line was that i was addicted to xanax and my body wanted more than i was taking which was only a half of a 0.5 but i had been only talking that much for over a yr at bedtime to help me sleep also anyhow,when i realized that this buzz feeling may have been withdrawl,i weened myself off xanax,everything went very well and the buzzy feeling i had threw my torso went missing...GONE...BYE BYE :) have never had that feeling since. good luck,hope youve figured it out!

dragonfly2

I had the same symtoms and ended up at Mayo. They diagnosed me with so many differant things . To make a long story short a month after I got home from Mayo I ended up back in the hospital. Come to find out Mayo was incorrect with their Diagnoses and I was getting worse. After 8 differant Dr's and recommendations to see a Shrink It was discovered that I had Lyme disease and several co-infections. Please ask whom ever you go to to check for this. A lot of Dr's are afraid to treat people with this disease so they usually will not check for it. All the symptoms that you explain sound like what I was dealing with.

GOOD LUCK and God Bless

luckeeluke

Just like dragonfly2, I had/have similar symptoms. Turned out to be Lyme Disease also. I can relate to most of what folks are posting in this thread. I never had any of these issues/symptoms before about 5 years ago.

It doesn't mean that you all have Lyme. Just do your homework and at least investigate the possibility of Lyme and other tick borne diseases. There is such a huge part of the population that has Lyme and they don't even know it.

luckeeluke

I just went to my Lyme support group last night. There was some good discussion on people's stories, diagnosis, questions, etc.

Same old story. . . everyone there was diagnosed with various things before the Lyme diagnosis such as MS, Lupus, Crohn's, Stiff Person Syndrome (I almost have to laugh at that one), Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Ron39

I take Xanax and have the same feeling. That has to be it. Xanax relaxes you. So when it leaves your system, the relaxed state goes away.

When you think about it, it doesnt only have to be anti anxiety medication. Alcohol relaxes you. The buzz you get when you are tipsy is not the same buzz you feel when the alcohol leaves your system. Also, leaves your body wanting more.

Think about the things that relax you, then think about how you stop them, there may be your answer.

Hippiechick

yeah,i'll bet my life ron,its the xanax. i havent had that feeling since i weened off the stuff last yr but i do take a half every once in a great while if im out in a store and i feel a anxiety attack starting to surface,man i hate them there horrible. thank god i dont get them real bad like i use to. ive been to thee er they were so bad and scared me,its crazy. but i dont know,i must have gotton wat ever was causing them out of sight out of mind.

BuddyPal

Hi.....To Everyone that has BUZZING SYMPTOMS !!!
I want to give an update... about my experiences
with the Buzzing !!! First of all - I had to be put on thyroid supplements - because my thyroid was too low !!! Also - I had to start a series of B -12 injections - because that was too low !!! Once that was corrected - I still had some buzzing in my body - my neurologist said that it is possible for my body to be still buzzing abit - because it could be trying to mend itself from being to low in thyroid and B-12 - so taking 10 mg's of Claritin a few hours before bed - everynight - takes almost all of the buzzing away !!! I am MUCH
BETTER !!! I do not have lyme disease symptoms...

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