Women will suddenly shake when sleeping

Maintaining good and sufficient sleep can make people have the energy to work, live and study the next day. Sleep is necessary, but women who suddenly shake while sleeping especially want to know whether they have some disease. Sometimes this does happen: not long after you fall into deep sleep, your body suddenly shakes as if you were electrocuted, and you may even wake yourself up. This situation is related to the nervous system.

A muscle twitch is a rapid, involuntary muscle twitch. Because it is so fast, it often appears like an electric shock. The location where it occurs varies depending on the disease. It can manifest as whole-body twitching or occur in a local part of the body. The occurrence of muscle twitches often reflects the destruction or dysfunction of certain inhibitory nerve cells in the central nervous system. Due to the insufficient inhibitory effect of these neurons, the excitability of the motor neurons increases, resulting in spontaneous abnormal discharges, which is reflected in the body as muscle twitching. Depending on the location of the abnormal discharge, muscle jerks can be divided into cerebral cortical muscle jerks, brainstem reticular structure muscle jerks, spinal muscle jerks, etc.

Back to the topic, regarding the involuntary shaking of the body, the expert's explanation is: hypnic myoclonus.

This unconscious muscle twitch is the sudden shake of the body when you fall asleep, and is usually accompanied by a feeling of falling or stepping on air.

Statistics show that about 70% of people have experienced tremors in their sleep.

What is myoclonus?

This is a normal physiological manifestation, such as hiccups, muscle twitches during sleep, or muscle twitches that occur when you are nervous or tired.

It is normal to have a sudden twitch while sleeping occasionally, and it happens to everyone.

This occasional jittering occurs when a person is in the "rapid eye movement" sleep stage. It is a normal physiological phenomenon that occurs when a person falls asleep during the "rapid eye movement" period.

Why does muscle twitching occur?

1. Overwork

Due to reasons such as high work pressure, long hours of overtime, and poor sleep quality, one is bound to be in a bad mood and overly nervous.

2. Calcium deficiency

Low blood calcium leads to hyperexcitability of muscles and nerves, which in turn causes spasms and convulsions.

3. Liver and kidney deficiency

The muscle twitching phenomenon is not very severe, but it occurs frequently. It may be caused by liver and kidney deficiency and insufficient qi and blood.

4. Symptomatic muscle twitching

If accompanied by headache, dizziness and other symptoms, a brain CT or MRI examination is required to determine whether this muscle twitching is a symptom caused by brain disease.