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.
Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.
ooooooh!! I have had this happen to me! It's so weird. I have chalked it up to the fact that I am older and getting varicose veins so when they are micro-infarcting (my made up word for how a varicose vein feels when it is turning purple LOL) it "buzzes" I'm really weird ?
This is my follow up. I started taking doses 400mg of Albendazole every 12 hrs last Sunday night for Trichinosis, so I have had 11 doses so far. If you start treating these worms before they get out of your small intestine while still in your digestive tract the first few days, you just need one dose. But once they are in your muscle or fleshly tissue, they are hard to kill hence the multiple doses for 8 to 14 days.
So on Day 2 after my first dose, I woke and had no vibrations but later had a few weak ones. The next day none and 2 days went by and it had stopped.
Then the third day I felt a small one but not a constant succession like in the beginning when they started. I had to stop and be sure I was really getting them again. So this is what I surmise being the un willing Guinea pig in this disturbing condition. The larva was weakened and for survival it stopped moving but did not die. After 2 days of resting it worked enough energy up to move, but nothing like before the doses of Albendazole. Albendazole has a half life of 8 to 12 hrs. I have noticed if I get any vibrations now it is around the 8 hr period after a dose. But all in all, it has made any vibrations much less frequent and weaker when they happen so I know this stuff is working. I just have to realize it is a 14 day treatment with a 70% success rate and day 6 just passed. I have a ways to go and might have to do another 14 days again later, to stop any possible second generation ones from taking hold if they are not all killed the first does I dealt with this situation with mites before, you think they are gone and the eggs left hatch out and it starts over again.
Without a MRI I doubt any doctor is going to order done, or a biopsy of your muscle which they say is not always conclusive, and without other lab test searching for a needle in a haystack, a doctor is just guessing how to treat you. It is called his practice for a reason. They are not the Gods they seem to imagine they are.
Anyway I wanted to follow up on my progression with documentation to possibly help others. I am a scientist experimenting on my own body as a necessity. A dedicated researcher will infest themselves to see what works and what doesn't, for me this infection was not a choice.
I got irritated with feeling the vibrations before starting the Albendazole, and since the Albendazole blocks the worms ability to absorb sugar and weakens them. I want to further weaken them so they die. My idea was to get an electrical muscle stimulator, it sends pulses across pads you place where you want them to travel. You can adjust the intensity and the frequency of the pulses, they are battery powered cheap on ebay and last 2 days without a charge. This worm is persistent, not an easy kill. I will do follow ups on here and document of any results from electrically stimulating the worm constantly with pulses to wear it out and kill it.
I just got cured from a horrible infestation of Clover Mites, no doctor had a clue what I had with the sores they caused that gave me sepsis. I had to figure it out myself and now am helping others cure theirs.
Believe me I know after over seven years with the mites constantly infecting my body, what it feels like when a live insect is inside you. They become your companion, you have no choice. You have to take control and figure out how to stop the destructive relationship.
This might sound crazy, but when an insect becomes a part of you, you almost feel you know it by it's movements. When it is strong, when it is weak, when it is resting trying to survive. This is how I feel about my unwelcome room mate this worm. These things can live years in your body, they can be in you for life, or lucky people with a good immune system might naturally get rid of them in months. Parasites can even affect your mind and moods through your gut flora.
I have had them since birth( Parasites) not this specific one, I am borderline autistic. I think there is a correlation to that. I am a bug magnet. When a bug known to commonly enter peoples homes in the Spring and fall are determined not harmful to people, and you get a horrible infestation with scabies type sores. then find tens of them in your tub after each salt bath when before the bath you cleaned the tub. The Science is wrong.
This is why I do not trust doctors and so called professionals, there is more they do not know, than what they do know, unless they have a first hand experience like me and cure themselves because nobody else seems to be able to figure out our illness.
So now here I am documenting another parasite, my experience trying to kill it and the results in hopes to help others.
I am not saying everyone's vibrations are caused by Trichinosis, but in my case it makes sense because after finding out how you get them and how long it takes for them to escape your digestive tract, I remembered weeks before eating some bad tasting meat. It was bacon ,it was suppose to be Turkey bacon, but since pigs are the only farm animals we eat that get these worms in their flesh, and meat processors are not good at cleaning their equipment when going from grinding one meat to the next, or maybe intentionally putting pork in the turkey bacon for flavor , this is how I got these worms or the worm I feel moving in my leg anyway.
I know meat processors are just recently mixing beef and chicken now in some of the pepperoni pizzas you see in the store now, it says that on the box. Somebody needs to better regulate them, but that will never happen our politicians can't accomplish anything but fighting each other in order to keep their power.
I have noticed how fast this liquid Albendazole enters my blood stream, if the worm is moving occasionally after 8 hrs after taking it ( which is it's half life in your body) The vibrations stop within minutes of taking a dose and do not re occur again till 8 to ten hours later.. I saw one dose recommendation of 400mg and one for 500mg. I think I will experiment to see if there is a difference with a higher dose, possible fewer and weaker vibrations.
I will follow up when I get the muscle stimulator and use it to post my results.
People you need to take this seriously, our world is getting more greedy. Stay away from any processed meats, these evil people care more about profit than what they grind up as fillers in your meat, things they would never eat.
I have noticed when I eat or drink anything with sugar in it, the vibrations are stronger and more frequent which makes sense when the Albendazole weakens and kills them by blocking their absorption of sugar.
For now this is a continuing saga. I will do Follow ups as things progress.
Going on day 8 now since the vibrating started. My brain must be working in the background when I am not thinking about these things, because this came to me. The Albendazole dose instructions is 400mg every 12 hrs or 800mg a day. The vibrating stops about 10 minutes to an hour after I take the dose, within 8 hrs I start feeling some movement again, although a weaker vibration, it is still there. My thinking is my dosing is wrong giving the worm 4 hrs after the 8 hrs it comes back for my next 12 hr dose, to recover.
My solution is I am going to start taking the Ambendazole every 8 hrs which makes sense. Divide the 800mg daily dose by 3 since there are 3 eight hour periods in a day. I have started dosing 800 divided by three which comes to 266mg every 8 hrs. Hopefully keeping a more steady concentration of Albendazole in my system will not give the worm any time to recover.
I will see after a few days if this makes a difference and come back and post an update.
Well I am back again for an update. Thank goodness I thought up dosing more frequent than every 12 hrs. Not more MG necessarily, but spreading the 800mg dose into more than 2 every 12 hrs in a 24 hr period.
So the first day I changed from dosing 400mg every 12 hr , to 266.6 approximately every 8 hrs, I was still occasionally getting the vibrations.
I do not have a way to measure my dose exactly my Albendazole being a liquid, but 1 teaspoon,( the small spoon is the tea spoon fyi), equals about 4.93ml. Since my medicine is 113.6mg per mil. A teaspoon equals 560mg
Knowing how many MG I am getting in a table spoon helps me better estimate how much I am getting each time. So anyway after the first 8 hr dose, it seemed to vibrate sooner than every 8 hrs, so as soon as it would vibrate I would take about a third teaspoon of medecine.
I would wait and see if I felt any more and if I felt one I would take a little more in a spoon, it might give you a little nausea if you take more but nothing too bad. so I noticed the vibrations got weaker and finally stopped, it has been 24 hrs now and If I think I feel something, I have to stop and be still and see if it is any vibrating feeling or just me getting ptsd from getting them and thinking I feel them. I always expect the worst.
So far I can say I have not felt it anymore, so today my muscle stimulator was delivered, I thought well I don't need it now. But I never had one so I tried it. I put the electrodes about 8 inches apart one at the top of my thigh where the vibration had been and the other above my knee. I set it to massage on the #1 setting, the lowest man it was shocking ,duh. I changed the settings to get the stimulation I wanted but ended up having to move the electrode from above my knee to below my knee to make it not so strong. The way these things feel is you only feel the electricity right below where the electrode is placed, not all the way through your leg. This is great because you can place the electrode over where you feel the vibration and spot shock it..
I learned if I applied pressure with my fingers all around my leg, when I got near or on the spot where the vibration originates, it seems to lessen the vibration. You are compressing the flesh where ever the worm is and the vibration does not travel as far, so that helps locate where it is, Maybe it also makes the worm compress where it can't move as good, I don't know. But if you can go around and press with 2 or 3 fingers like you would push with them, you should feel a difference in the vibration when you get right on where it is. That would be where to place the electrode if you wanted to stress and wear the worm out as the Albendazole blocks it's absorption of sugar from your body. Since my vibrating has stopped, I don't have a need for the stimulator at this point, but since I have 6 days left to dose, I am going to keep up the dosing closer to 6 doses in 24 hrs till the 14 days of administering it is completed. If anyone decides to get one of these Muscle stimulators, do not if you have any heart problems or a pace maker. And read the instructions before using it before you hook it up so you know how to control it and how to place the electrodes. I can tell you this much, the electricity this stimulator sends through you goes deep enough to either irritate the hell out of the worm, electrocute it or stress it out and kill it, especially if it's sugar intake is cut off.
Makes me wonder if it would drive mites out of your skin too.
Jamie Alexander
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They say this worm can live in you for life. Trichinosis, to the guy that said he has had it for 20 years