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.
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.
Really?? No one else needs to find evidence of anything that goes on in my body to justify my experience. Either I feel it or I don't. Either it happened or it didn't and if it didn't, then it was a hallucination.
fyi - I've been off for 3 days now -rest, and I've been taking a multivitamin. I was already increasing my potassium, and calcium/D3 before -didn't do anything. The multivitamin does have magnesium in it -not much, but maybe there was something to the theory I saw of hypomagnesemia because I haven't felt it in a couple days now.
I can see it's been a couple of years now but since your description PERFECTLY DESCRIBES my own current experience I'm wondering if you have any update?
I have the same thing going on it feels like a cell phones on vibrate going off in my pocket in the right hip area and towards the wrong, it lasts about a minute and it happens periodically. I've only noticed it within the last month or so. I'm wondering if it has something to do with some of the medications that me and others are taking that may be causing this. I just went on a high blood pressure pill within the last month and also a cholesterol pill. Is there anyone that's having these symptoms taking these two types of medications?
Made an account just to keep up to date. I just started having this feeling two days ago. I recently bought new shoes (on 4/8) that were pretty flat. I am on my feet at work around 98% of the time. On Wednesday i started having hip pain, accompanied with these vibrations we are trying to figure out. I have been taking NSAID's and the hip doesn't hurt anymore, however the vibrations are still happening. Just like OP, i don't feel it when I'm walking but when I'm standing still or laying down it will come and go. I also feel it when I bend forward, leading me to believe somewhere there is pressure being put onto a nerve. No physical vibrations when I put my hand to my thigh, in fact it rarely even happens when I'm trying to "catch it in the act".
I am thinking it is pressure from the piriformis muscle pushing down on the ciatic nerve causing the vibration? Seems a bit odd since there's no other pain that accompanies sciatica with it. Just my guess. I will try increasing B12 and Magnesium intake, along with protein and report back in a week.
I am having the exact same problem, but I also get stiffness after sitting and pain and stiffness in my lower back. The stiffness in my back is worse when I lay down. I can't change positions in bed unless I use my arms. The vibrations are exactly like you described like a low cellphone vibration in the cease of my left thigh or a bruit.
i have been having this sensation for a couple of weeks now. Had a total hip replacement a few months ago in the left leg, but this sensation occurs in the thigh area of the right leg, on the outside about six inches down from the hip - nowhere near my cell phone, which I generally keep in a shirt pocket. This feels like it is just under the skin. I would describe this as a brief vibration - perhaps one to two seconds. Any other ideas?
I have it happen, but it's very brief and intermittent. It hits the area on my thigh near where my phone sits in a cargo pocket. Honestly never thought to look into it, just chalked it up to "life can be weird"...
roser13, ASN, RN
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Really?? No one else needs to find evidence of anything that goes on in my body to justify my experience. Either I feel it or I don't. Either it happened or it didn't and if it didn't, then it was a hallucination.