Ohhhh my.... Here I was thinking that this internal shaking was only happening to me. I thought I'd check here, just in case, and here it is, a whole volume...so many of you who are shaking along with me. And isn't it odd that we can feel this shaking, but it's not visibly noticeable? I started having the internal shaking about a year ago. It would wake me up every couple of hours. My doctor put me on Immovane (half of 7.5mg) which I took for 7 months. I'll be honest and say that it didn't stop the shaking but I took some comfort in the fact that at least I was getting some decent sleep. This summer I stopped taking the Immovane. I wanted to sleep on my own, without help, and I was doing ok. At the end of August I had a period (period?? it was just spotting) and haven't had one since. But ohhh that shaking is now worse. Just like some of you have reported, this week I have been waking up with a huge jerk like the bottom falling out of an elevator, my heart was racing, I was in a complete sweat and shaking both inside and out. One night I was crying at 3am so worried was I that "something dreadful" was going on, and so very tired and exhausted from All of This. It got really bad on Wednesday morning and I went to emergency with pains in my chest. I know I don't have to tell you that they did all the necessary tests and checks and found nothing. So the past two nights, I've taken the Immovane again and have managed two nights of reasonable sleep. The internal shaking is still there - does it wake me up, or is it there when I wake up? But at least I have slept. I should/could be having a period now. If it doesn't arrive, it will mean that I have missed 3 in a row - a first for me. Does it stand to reason that the body "struggles" when a period is due but doesn't materialize? Are the hormonal fluctuations worse at this time of the month? I'm 52, I'm not on HRT and my periods have been erratic and unpredictable for 18 months. This year what periods I have had have been mostly spotting. I was given to understand that the longer we went without a period, the easier it got. Is this so? I hope so. Any input will be greatly appreciated. ~Draggin' Dragon in Canada

Hi. Try Magnesium 400 mg a day for internal shaking. It helped me tremendously!

Hi Kathy 46... How did you learn about the Magnesium do others take it for the the same thing, and why that particular dose? What is in it that helps the internal shaking? Thanks for your help. ~Shaking Dragon in Canada

Dearest has provided info about Magnesium (and lots of other good stuff for meno problems) in the Power Surge Recommendations Area. Check it out Dearest has also posted on these boards:

"I suffered constantly with palpitations during perimenopause - once a day, 24 hours a day. I know how uncomfortable and, yes, frightening it can be. In my article, Power Surge's Menopause Survival Tips, I include many suggestions for helping to reduce and eliminate palpitations. I strongly suggest taking a few moments to read it. Also, I would recommend to any woman who's suffering with palpitations to get on a regimen of 800 IU's of vitamin E - taken in doses of no more than 200 IU's at a time (one at breakfast - it must be taken with food; the second with lunch; third with dinner and fourth at bedtime). Also, adding anti-oxidants like CoQ-10, selenium, folic acid (very, very important for heart health), Taurine and omega 3 oils (you can take it in one capsule) are all tremendously helpful. Last, but not least, get on magnesium every day - 500-1,000 mg. You'll find all this information on the recommendations page. Finally, I also recommend everyone should have a copy of Dr. Robert Atkins (R.I.P.) excellent book called Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution. The book is one of the finest books on the effectiveness of vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants, amino acids, et al, in treating various disorders. I refer to it more than any other book I own and have been learning about nutrition from Dr. Atkins for the past 25 years. The man was an excellent nutritionist and cardiologist. You can also read the transcript of his visit to Power Surge. "

Dragon- Do you feel cold with the internal shaking, I have internal shaking, and then I am very cold. By the way Hi - I am fairly new, signed up long time ago, but wasn't ready to admit defeat of symptoms.

I get cold with the internal shaking too. The shaking is really bad right now. I'm only 43 and I'm sure that I'm in perimenopause. I have so many health issues to numerous to count and nothing is "wrong" according to tests. I know that I am not crazy and I am not a hypocondriac. :roll: Where do you all experience the shaking? The majority of mine is in my abdominal area. Occasionally it will appear in my legs or my chest.

For the past few weeks i have been having internal shaking right before,during and after hot flashes...sometimes it begins up to 5-10 minutes before hand and can last up to half an hour after...anyone else experience this? Also,i have heard that a person shouldn't take JUST magnesium,that it should always be a calcium/magnesium/zinc supplement....any truth to that? Also.....i have been reading up on magnesium deficiency...so many symptoms seem to be the same as peri/meno...how do we know the difference?

I have read that just plain magnesium isn't easily absorbed into the body;therefore a person should take a calcium/magnesium/zinc supplement....do any of you take JUST a magnesium tablet?

Why is it that the docs don't seem to know about this phenomenon? I remember sitting in the examination room trying to explain to a chest specialist what this internal vibrating was like. That it starts in my chest and feels like a whirring deep inside, like a wind-up toy whirring somewhere and him just looking at me blankly as though I were an idiot. And how I get this weird feeling that starts in my chest then spreads along my arms and into my head........................etc and he's still looking at my blankly. My GP didn't know what I was talking about when I saw him about it, hence the reason for me seeing the heart/lungs specialist. Neither of them said anything about meno. It's like we have to work everything out for ourselves, often suffering for years with anxiety over symptoms that we don't reaslise we share with others. Thank God and all you lovely ladies for this site!!

This supplement helped me so much. I take Magnesium 400 mg a day. It has helped my internal shaking and has helped me with my sleep. I take it with my noon meal. I also joined a circuit training program. I swear by it. They have them for women all over the country. 30 mins 3x a week. Wonderful program because I hate exercise but this works!!

I haven't posted much - mostly been reading but thought I jump in. I first experienced these strange internal shaking last year and thought I was the only one until I found others are going thru the same thing on this forum. My dr. said it wasn't normally a peri-meno symptom! What a relief it was to know I didn't have some weird thing going on! For me, these internal shakes were by far the worse symptom to have! It was from this forum that someone mentioned taking Magnesium would help. The internal shaking disappeared within a month or two after taking the Magneisum every night, and making an effort to work out everyday helped too. I take Calcium (1500 mg) and Magnesium (500 mg) during the day too and I still take 500 mg Magnesium every night at bedtime.

Dragon, I have to say that my calcium/magnesium is the one supplement that I will not give up. It's helped with the shaking, the insomnia, and who knows what else. I swear by it. The supplement I take is 500 mg calcium and 200 magnesium, and I take one in the morning and one about an hour before bedtime. If I still have trouble sleeping, I get up and take another one. I probably sound like a broken record, but this has helped me more than anything with perimenopause symptoms.

I went to a neurologist re: internal shaking after my ob/gyn didn't know what it was. The neuro dr. said: "anxiety". I had read Dearest's post about the correct balance of transdermal estradiol and progesterone being the only thing that helped her internal shaking which she has had since perimenopause began. I have tried the neuro dr. Rx which was an SSRI and an antidepressant to help me sleep. That helped with sleep but I did not get relief from internal shaking until I added progesterone cream. Thank you, Dearest. Do you have any research I can share with my doctors?

Look another symptom of peri that I had but did not know what it was....I went to my naturopath 4 years ago with the internal shakes; no hot or cold flashes just(like that isn't enough?) the shakes. He put me on a low carb( not NO carb) regimen and my shakes went away in a matter of days. OK, I admit I did not give up the caffeine he told me to give up while drinking his cup of joe; I am still a caffeine fiend. I have the cal/mag in a drawer( he told me to take it too)I am a BAD pill taker. However, IF I start getting some of the stuff I read about in here I WILL do what it takes-natuarally though. I always thought HRT was a longterm experiment on women and I was proven to be correct.


BTW: My naturopath knew immediately what it was and what to do about it...interesting, eh?

Several years ago I started getting vertigo and my mind raced all night long. discovered if I took calcuim and magnesium this would stop it eventually, I just had to take it periodically through the day for several days. I have always taken calcium/mag because I am not able to eat dairy products but I can't say that I took them every day, but most of the time and especially around my period. At first I found if I loaded up on the cal/mag this worked for awhile.

One morning I woke up took the usual cal/mag 500/1000 ratio, and was sitting on the bed watching tv. I started to get cold, so I put on a sweat shirt, I kept getting colder, so I put on my sweat pants, and crawled back in bed, pretty soon I had three blankets on me and began to shake uncontrollably, my son called the paramedics, they weren't there long before I started to return to normal, they said I had had a seizure and didn't know what caused it. I deduced that it was the cal/mag that I had taken before they came that brought me out of the seizure. After that every time I would get the least cold or shaky would go for the cal/mag and I would be okay The calcium magnesium manage to help me stop the shakes, vertigo, and cold, temporarily but invaribly it would resurface. I noticed that just before my period I began to feel cold, which is when your cal/mag drops to its lowest point in your body and gradually rises in a couple of days.

I found that by increasing the magnesium only from 500 to a 1000 miligrams that I no longer was subject to the internal shakes, vertigo, and mind racing. but I have to do it consistantly.

Two weeks ago, I was in emergency ward, and started shaking badly, had neglected to take the mag/cal for a couple of days. they gave me magnesium intraveinously and it immediately stopped, they came by two days later and said my mag tests showed a little on the low side. Just wanted to share this with you to let you know what some of the symptoms are for a magnesium deficiency, and although my tests didn't reveal a serious deficiency, a lack of magnesium can certainly cause an array of problems, some of which you would not think to attribute to magnesium loss. Even though I was already taking 1000/1000 cal /mag my test still showed that I was some what low in magnesium.

Can anyone help me please? I have been taking one half of 7.5 Immovane for approximately 5 years (can't believe its been that long). I have a very dry mouth, and other side effects, and really want to get off these pills. Can anyone please tell me the best way to get off them? Thank you so much.