Muscle Spasms with Fibromyalgia: Is it Common?

I get that sometimes randomly. The other night my ankles kept having spasps, but it was after I stood in a weird position changing at diaper at 1am lol. My ankles ached like after a Charley horse the next day.

I haven’t looked into anything about fibromyalgia lately I didn’t know about the autoimmune studies.. thanks for letting me know I’ll definitely look into that!

I have both positive and negative Ana test as well …. My primary care doctor said the exact same thing about fibromyalgia.. it’s usually always something they just haven’t found it yet.. but when I say “nothing” I’m saying it comes from nothing.. it’s been said that fibromyalgia comes from trauma, injury, psychological issues, or surgery.. which I have none of lol so I always ask … “if I have fibromyalgia and it comes from these particular things and I don’t have ANY of these.. then where is mine coming from?” And my old doctors would say “idk” 😳😳 I was suppose to get a mri on my brain a few weeks ago but my insurance wouldn’t pay for my. The neurologist I went to has been fighting my insurance company but I’m over it so I’m just paying for it tomorrow to be done. Smh

i'd also like to throw in the ring that fibro is a pretty common pre-diagnosis for multiple sclerosis, which has muscle spasms as one of the most common symptoms. numbness, fatigue, and chronic pain can also be symptoms. it is an autoimmune disorder. not sure if you're already aware of/suspecting this but i'd personally not be surprised if either or both of us find ourselves with a ms diagnosis at some point ;;P should have mentioned that sooner but it slipped my brain since i'd convinced myself that wasnt it haha

do the extreme ones seem to have any specific triggers? i know that my partner has some pretty intense and painful-looking spasms that are assumed to be related to autism and associated muscle tension (which... is frequently diagnosed as fibromyalgia. go figure) and they come on mainly during emotional distress (anxiety especially).

I get both kinds of muscles spams. Most of the time its the twitching/jumping kind but other times I get ones in my toes and under my shoulder blades that feel like my body is trying to rip itself apart. I've been dealing with the "extreme" ones for about 2-3 years now.

dunno that i'd say it's common, but it's at least something some fibro patients experience. i have muscle spasms of moderate intensity, usually most noticeable as i'm falling asleep but when i think about it, i'm experiencing them now too ::v they're not super visible from the outside. but to be fair, i have a pretty positive ana and some other weird symptoms that i'm not sure are explained by fibro (meningitis caused by normal ibuprofen use anyone?) so i could also be experiencing some autoimmune fuckery. basically, i wouldn't rule out another diagnosis just yet, but it could very well be from fibro. good luck with your journey to see a rheumatologist! don't be too disappointed if you end up with a positive ana but no autoimmune dx... ana positivity seems to be decently common among fibro patients and some theorise that it's an autoimmune condition itself

Do your muscle spasms hurt or are they more like twitching/jumping? This just started happening to me around November of last year as well as cramp like pain almost as if something was tightening around me… and then I started having numbness.. (the twitching/spasms started first.. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2016.. I feel like it’s always something else.. I think that anybody with fibromyalgia has something else.. there is no way I can feel the way I feel and there is “NOTHING” wrong