Got the shakes.

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Recently, I've begun shaking. I can't help it, and the muscle spasms I get are starting to become painful from the constant muscle contractions. I'm completely worn out.

It all started exactly an hour earlier a week ago from today. I was on top a roof with some friends, and when I tried to get down I fell. Trying to catch myself, I landed full force and put all my weight on my left leg, I heard a loud popping sound as I felt my leg go into my foot. Then pain. I felt suddenly cold after that, and my body began to shake. I thought it was just the shivers, but the room remained at about 85 degrees Fahrenheit.

I went to the doctor later that day, got a X-Ray and she told me she believed it was broken, or that I had a bad sprain with some hairline fractures. The X-ray didn't show anything to helpful, and she thought that there were fractures that the X-Rays they couldn't see because of the swelling. She told me to wait 3 days for the swelling to go down and take a MRI and another X-ray. She also said that the shaking I experienced was shock from the fall.

So days later, the swelling goes down and I'm able to walk on it without crutches, even though it's best to stay on them because of the pain I'm in when I walk and because it's best until the doctor says otherwise, I continued to walk without crutches anyway, with a bad limp. Not the smartest decision, I regret that very much now.

I went to a friends house on Saturday, chilled and ended up staying the night at some random girls house. Since I don't own a car, I've been walking everywhere, well limping now. When I got there I was limping pretty bad, and my foot was starting to swell. I shrugged it off saying "Pains just a part of life.". Well, later on into the night I found myself shaking and having muscle spasms uncontrollably, much worse than the night I fell. My muscles contracted in repetitive pain, as my body couldn't stop shaking. I found myself unable to get out of the chair I was sitting in, as I shook, I was able to mumble a "I'm alright." over and over to the friends around me, but I couldn't speak much more than that. My friends thought I was kidding at first, which I tried to laugh off a little bit but couldn't, but they began to worry when they saw I the pain I was in.

Fortunately, I was able to stop after a while, but the shaking soon came back when I was laying on the floor trying to get to sleep. After the shaking died down, I was so tired from it, I passed out. When I woke up, I managed to make it home. I've been out cold all day, and I've just woken up recently with a few minor shakes through out the day.

I haven't drank any alcohol, or had any barbiturates. I've heard shaking like this is similar to having withdrawals to those sort of things. But, I've been taking 7.5 Hydrocodone for the pain in my ankle, could that be related?

I know that's a low dose of Hydrocodone, but I've never been prescribed painkillers before.

Does anyone have any insight to why this is happening? Should I go see a doctor? Is this life threatening? What should I do about this?


TL;DR Version:
I'm fucking shaking.
 
The body's response to any sort of pain, residual or not, is adrenaline and endorphins. Adrenaline increases energy consumption in all of your body--more blood to the muscles, more blood to the brain. Not only that, but your brain is deciding what to do--flee or confront whatever you're facing. So when you've got an excess of adrenaline, your body shakes in order to expend excess energy.
As for endorphins, those just kill the pain.
 
Actually, a chiropractor is not a bad idea, however, I would strongly recommend you see yoru doctor first. If you do have a fracture or anything that could be broken in there, a chiropractor will be of no help to you until your foot has healed more. A good chiropractor would even tell you to get it x-rayed first by your docotr. Some chiro's have x-ray machines in their office, but they won't be able to cast you or give you the proper medical attention you'd need, so most will refer you back to your doctor in order to get it looked at. If it's a pinched nerve, you may still need medical attention outside of a chiropractor's means.

You probably are shaking due to adrenalyn and the reaction to pain and muscle spasm, however, that is telling you your body is trying to endure more pain that it can handle. See a doctor!!! If there is somethign wrong with your foot, you need to get it looked at. You may be able to physically walk on it now, but sometimes there are consequences that don't show up until later. You could get nerve numbness, and uneven walk do to your bones not setting themselves right. continuous nerve pain cause your bones have now grown around your nerve causing your nerve to be continuously compressed...which can hurt a lot. You best get it looked at by a doctor (Not a chiropractor) so you can use your foot correctly and hopefully pain free. See a chiropractor after your foot is reset and healed by western terms. Then see a chiropractor to help it continue to heal in the best way possible. Western medicine only goes so far. It's great to have both modalities available to you. Use them correctly adn you will have no problem with your foot (assuming you see good doctors and follow their advice completely)
 
Ask your doctor for some Flexeril---it's a mild muscle relaxer. It helped my muscle spasms WAY more than the vicodin they gave me after the accident. It isn't one of those that'll knock you on your ass or give you a buzz, it just helps. A lot.

Definitely go back to your doctor though, dude....you shouldn't be in that much pain.
 
The MRI test finally came back today, yeah it's fractured and has a infused pocket of puss(?), I'm going to schedule a appointment with the orthopedist, get a cast and get my ankle drained.

No, I haven't been drinking water. Maybe I should?
 
Sometimes I'll get muscle cramps and it will make me realise that I haven't been drinking as much water as I should so I just thought I would throw that out there.

In any case, it never hurts to drink more water especially if you're on pain killers.
 
7 makes a very good point. Hydration is very key to many things regarding our body. Water (not just any liquid folks.) is essential to making the body function and heal properly.

Drinking water isn't going to kill you.

I hope you feel better soon and I'm glad you got news on your condition.
 
^24 karat advice^

I had to ditch my dirt bike when i was 13-15...(A big bull suddenly appeared as i rounded the bend on great uncle's farm { "a'la holy shit...BFB!!"}...broke a rib...wasn't drinkin much of anything which caused kidney pain with the meds = parents freak=tests=drink more h2o diagnosis



Guinness is better:tongue:
 
I think I'm getting surgery, I'm not sure yet. They said something about draining the infused pocket of puss out of my foot(?), I have no idea what that is but I heard it's going to hurt.

Any idea to what they're talking about?
 
Your body produces pus in order to reduce friction between different surfaces within a body. This is why you find it in great quantities around splinters and foreign items. Likely your body formed a bubble of pus around the fracture in order to prevent further damage. This would be good and well unless you were going in for surgery--it hinders the surgeon's ability to operate.

As for how much it'll hurt, have you ever reopened an infected gash?
 
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