Okay - maybe someone has heard of this and knows a dx. I have researched and researched and can not find ONE single professional answer to it. Only thing I can find is thread after thread after thread with HUNDREDS of PATIENTS who have this complaint, yet NO ONE has dx it as being anything yet.
Vibration in your thigh - crease of thigh in women, or groin area usually in men - and it feels exactly like you have your cell phone on vibrate in your pocket and its going off. IN fact - causes many to constantly check their cell only to realize that isn't what it is - can feel it lying down at night, sitting up during the day - just a constant low vibration.
My immediate thought is that its like blood rushing through a vein - but no s/s at all of any kind of DVT - no pain, no difficulty with mvmt, or breathing, no rapid hr - no other signs and symptoms of anything else - just this annoying vibration that feels like a tiny cell phone set on vibrate.
I'm not all too educated in the human body, probably not as much as I should be. But I find it interesting that you say that the muscle doesn't twitch and that there's no pain or sciatica involved. It's my understanding that muscle spasms or twitches don't have to cause pain or sciatica. Though they can. I think most everyone has experienced this type of sensation and that it's just a result of impulse activity that is occurring in the region you're experiencing it in. Though, I'm wondering, if you apply pressure or some other type of external stimulation to the area if it relieves or minimizes the vibration you're reporting.
Can you share more? What are you doing when it occurs? Does anything trigger it or make it go away? How long does it last? Does it only happen in one place? Have you felt anything like it before?
I think/believe this is the lymphatic system moving through and clearing debris. A good sweaty work out would probably resolve these strange vibrations. I practice yoga regularly-twists, compressions, breath work, etc., and the only time I've felt this was while in nursing school when I had no time for myself! I was so out of shape, never worked out, and felt these strange vibrations quite frequently. Otherwise, it was caused by anxiety?!
I have had a muscle spasm in my thigh, it happens more when I'm dehydrated or working out. I can physically see the muscle (or whatever, not sure it's a muscle) twitching. But without looking at it, it does feel like a cell phone going off.
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Wondering if this is related to your spinal nerves. I recently herniated a disc (L2/L3 I think) and I had no sciatic pain...it was pain at the top of my thigh and numbness in the front of my shin. I have not had to use my spinal nerve anatomy lesson in like 20 years.... so when I first started with the symptoms, I had no idea what it was. There is specific spinal nerves that innervate the top of the thigh (which for me where damaged by my herniated disc). So I wonder if that is what it is? definitely interesting!
Has nothing to do with a REAL cell phone. No, it doesn't happen as a result of me keeping my cell phone in that same region regularly -in fact I keep it in my purse. So no - this is not a "phantom" reaction because I'm used to my cell vibrating in that area or anything. The only connection to a cell phone is that the feeling FEELS like a cell phone is in your pocket.
No - the muscle does not twitch. No muscle involvement. No pain. No sciatica.
Vibration - almost want to say it feels like blood rushing through a vein might feel if you could feel it happening.
Crease of thigh in front. Not hip.
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ExACTly! Your description is dead on. Mine usually happens while I'm sitting.
I usually feel it the most when I am sitting or lying down watching tv. changing positions does not make it go away. applying pressure - yes - I've put my hand there trying to see if I can feel it externally and I can't - can't feel it with my hand. applying pressure with my hand does nothing.
I can also feel it when I'm standing. Not as much when I'm walking -but that is due to multiple sensations as you move around - hard to notice that ONE sensation.
Nothing particularly triggering it - as it is there all the time. lasts indefinitely - there all the time - last couple weeks. sometimes I feel it more than others, but. .
only happens in the ONE place - crease of my left thigh going inward. Not on the outside of my thigh.
Started taking multivitamins - seems to not be AS pronounced today as it as when I posted this.
I'm ready to go with the alien theory now. This is nuts.
also, no numbness, no burning, no tingling. ...doesn't feel at all like when you bump a nerve - put your cell in your pocket on vibrate - jeans pocket - right at the crease of your thigh. have someone call you - that's what I feel.
also, no numbness, no burning, no tingling. ...doesn't feel at all like when you bump a nerve - put your cell in your pocket on vibrate - jeans pocket - right at the crease of your thigh. have someone call you - that's what I feel.
I went through a period of time where I would have the buzzing sensation (as if my phone were vibrating in a fairly shallow jeans pocket) only to check my pocket and have no phone there, or check my phone and have no notifications. It was not a severe, persistent thing, and I can't think of the last time it happened. I chalked it up to "weird things bodies do," like now and then scratching one place and feeling a zing in another.
It did not feel remotely like a muscle twitch or nerve zap. The sensation was like something was vibrating against my skin.
Alien abduction theory still works, though. Maybe I was too boring and they removed my tracker, so no more buzzing.
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roser13 said:
RiskManager, I don't think those articles pertain. They refer to a hallucination of vibration where folks actually think their cell phone is vibrating. I think the OP is referencing an actual feeling of vibration in the groin. The cell phone was just used as an example of similar vibration in the OP, not that folks actually think they feel a phone.
I have experienced this but was unaware that anyone else ever had.
What's the difference between a hallucination and an actual experience? Only that no else finds evidence for that experience. If someone has a vibrating sensation for which no physical cause is found, it may well be a tactile hallucination.
What's the difference between a hallucination and an actual experience? Only that no else finds evidence for that experience. If someone has a vibrating sensation for which no physical cause is found, it may well be a tactile hallucination.
To the best of my knowledge, a hallucination is a brain malfunction causing you to physically perceive something that is not real. If some other part of your body is malfunctioning, it's not a hallucination - e.g. pins and needles in your arm (due to incorrect nerve signals, not due to incorrect brain activity) after you whack your elbow are not hallucinations.
I've felt the same type of sensations before, too, mostly in my groin area. Hasn't happened in a long time, but when it did occur, it was so annoying! Glad to see that I'm not the only one who's experienced this!
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I'm not all too educated in the human body, probably not as much as I should be. But I find it interesting that you say that the muscle doesn't twitch and that there's no pain or sciatica involved. It's my understanding that muscle spasms or twitches don't have to cause pain or sciatica. Though they can. I think most everyone has experienced this type of sensation and that it's just a result of impulse activity that is occurring in the region you're experiencing it in. Though, I'm wondering, if you apply pressure or some other type of external stimulation to the area if it relieves or minimizes the vibration you're reporting.
Can you share more? What are you doing when it occurs? Does anything trigger it or make it go away? How long does it last? Does it only happen in one place? Have you felt anything like it before?