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thanks all
atheist, i think its kind of similar yes, its like twitch tendrils crawling up & enveloping your muscles, and once its 'full' it does a massive twitch & its back down again, & starts slowly creeping up
i can speed that up & just let it twitch sooner, or clench the muscle, because trying not to is unbearable after about 30 seconds.
vagus - yes its awful isnt it - especially when youre really tired. ive never taken nytol since, but i think many similar things have similar ingredients, & ive found if i take them really early on, like 6 hours before im going to bed, that period passes barely noticed, because im up and about & doing stuff.
it depends how they affect you whether that works though i think it works for me because it takes ages for me to fall asleep anyway, so needs longer to work
sqad - im not recognizing the twitches described in for that one, but i'll read further.
i started getting them, when i was taking gabapentin, i came off that & went on amitryptaline & would have occasional jerks during the day, but then get really bad uncontrollable & almost constant twitches about half an hour after taking it, sometimes quite severe.
im off them now, but fairly recently - about 4 weeks - so maybe its just taking my body a while to adjust.