Violent shivering, nausea and hot blotches - iin?

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This is something I've dealt with from early childhood and that doctors insist is nothing more than anxiety. I had all kinds of tests as a kid. I've been having these episodes that last anywhere between 10 minutes to several hours.

Symptoms of these episodes:
* Violent, uncontrollable shivering and spasms that originate from my solar plexus and spread throughout the rest of my body.
* Jaw clenching, jaw may become locked.
* Dry mouth
* Nausea.
* Sweating.
* Stomach pains.
* Sudden, intense urge to defecate that comes and goes in waves.
* Trance-like state, emotionless, lost sense of time.
* Skin becomes mottled in random places between normal and pale to bright pink and hot.
* Sensitivity to touch and sudden temperature changes, sometimes resulting in not wanting to move and curling into a rigid, shivering ball.
* Hot, red cheeks.

These episodes occur when:
* I'm extremely happy, excited even.
* I'm having a pleasant but very fast-paced conversation.
* I'm watching a movie that has a lot of action.
* I encounter a phobia trigger (more prevalent when I was a child, not so much now).
* I least expect it (sometimes I'm just chillin').

* Lastly, I used to have these episodes strike before or during bed time, resulting in sleepless nights huddled around a sick basin (sometimes I vomited several times in one night). This one doesn't happen any more. It stopped happening when I stopped drinking tap water. Then I couldn't afford bottled and went back on to tap and it came back even worse than before. After cutting out tap water entirely I never get this problem at night-time. I still get it during the other times mentioned though.

I'm just wondering, am I the only one? I remember as a kid I had trouble explaining it to anyone and never found out of anyone else had it besides myself. If you've had it too did you ever find a specialist who could shed some light on it? I think anxiety/adrenaline may have something to do with it but I don't believe it covers the whole picture. There's something else going on.

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  • braintrip
    10 years ago

    lol i thought it said "hot bitches"

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    • Matter_and_Energy
      10 years ago

      Lol

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    It could be a variety of things but something you said about the triggers causes me to believe that this could be neurologically related.

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    • Matter_and_Energy
      10 years ago

      Nerologically as in nerves? Or as in the brain? Or both?

      Anyway I will mention this next appointment and see what they suggest. Hopefully I can get referred to another specialist.

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      • Avant-Garde
        10 years ago

        I'll say the brain since the Brain controls the whole body. If there's something wrong with the brain than the rest of body will start to malfunction.

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      • cuppycake1228
        9 years ago

        The brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system. Everything else is peripheral nerves.

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  • JimHawkins
    6 years ago

    I have recently had these shivering attacks at normal room temperature once every 2-3 months. I had one tonight. Sometimes I have numbness in my left arm or funny head feelings as well. No high temperature. They last 5-6 minutes if I follow my basic rule which is: Go to the bathroom and immediately use the hair blower on high setting all over my body for 3-4 minutes. I also put on some pants and a long sleeve shirt and drink some water. I usually take an aspirin. I warm up the apartment and sleep with a heavy blanket that night.

    From all the symptoms and causes, it seems that doctors are just grabbing at straws. It is time for the IBM medical "Watson" to be installed in Urgent Care, doctor offices, E.R. 's and Special Health Clinics for the Hopeless that have not been able to be properly diagnosed. Have them sit you down at the Dr Watson computer and have it diagnose your symptoms against all known causes by asking questions and you selecting or typing or saying answers in a private room. Followed by a review of Dr Watson's recommendations by a diagnostician with other questions.

    The specialty here is someone who has spent a year just concentrating on a single health problem. They do necessarily have to be a doctor. But they also have to have an aptitude that makes a good diagnostician. The result is recommendations to the doctor on possible causes, the proposed tests and the order of the tests with the test for most likely causes first. There would even be a 2 day and 3 day stay at the clinic option, or if the patient is nearby, an evening visit for a week to get test results and try out things.
    Or an evening Smart phone or PC Skype call with the diagnostician or doctor, or a Physician's assistant.

    We need specialty clinics that only deal with special difficult health issues that are not easily diagnosed. A place to go originally or if your normal doctor(s) have failed.

    Special Clinics for those who have failed to find the cause of their problem would be staffed with experts in diagnosing the problem and having access to other experts worldwide.

    The Chronic Forgotten health problems that are not able to be diagnosed and not responding to treatments. For example:

    1. Unexpected Shivering
    2. Chronic Sinusitis
    3. Ear Problems
    4. Chronic Fatigue
    5. Anxiety Attacks
    6. Overweight
    and others

    That's my 2 cents. Get our state and Congressional representatives interested in this new approach. And keep it low cost.

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  • KrazyKat
    7 years ago

    You just get overexcited. Take a few deep breaths, tell yourself... convince... no... beg yourself it is nothing. Just ignore it. The nausea might occur for hunger or if you have eaten too much before. If not it is stress/anxiety. If doing this does not help, convince your doctor and ask him what to do.

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  • Waterflux
    7 years ago

    NO, it's 100% NOT normal! the human body should NOT do that!

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  • cuppycake1228
    9 years ago

    They haven't considered idiopathic epilepsy? Sounds way more serious than anxiety attacks.

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  • RomeoDeMontague
    10 years ago

    All the symptoms you described are caused by anxiety and stress.

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    • Matter_and_Energy
      10 years ago

      Can you explain how it happens when I'm not anxious or stressed, just relaxing, or why it occurs when I'm happy?

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      • RomeoDeMontague
        10 years ago

        I would say go to the doctor but since they sent you home not sure what to say. I am not a professional so I probobly wont be much help. However this is all reactions you get from being stressed and anxious.

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      • RomeoDeMontague
        10 years ago

        Maybe you don't realize it. Being happy can make you get excited. You might be suffering anxiety attacks.

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        • Matter_and_Energy
          10 years ago

          Plus as I say it happens spontaneously when I'm relaxed too.

          I don't doubt anxiety can be a trigger but I do believe there's something else going on.

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          • RomeoDeMontague
            10 years ago

            Well you asked for advice and all of these symptoms would indicate an anxiety attack. Your doctor already said they will do nothing for you. So not sure what else to tell you. People on this site have limited knowledge. Your doctor was suppose to go to school for all those years so he would be able to fix this type of thing. Why don't you try a second doctor for another opinion in that case.

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            • Matter_and_Energy
              10 years ago

              Actually I just came here to ask if anyone else had the same thing and what they did about it. I don't expect you to know what it is. I've been to about 3 doctors now, seen specialists but I'm not convinced it's anxiety, especially when it happens when I'm nothing close to anxious. I do think anxiety is a trigger but that there's something underlying. As I said, panic attacks are completely different. For example they give me a rapid heart rate. This incident I'm talking about here doesn't affect my heart rate at all.

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        • Matter_and_Energy
          10 years ago

          I've had anxiety attacks before. It feels like a completely different thing.

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