Okay, not trying to panic but when your toe starts arching up (and I'm sleeping), and I wake up and I go "oh no, please don't let this happen", It's very painful.

Now I used to get spasms when I was a kid. Once in a great while, my middle toe would all of a sudden rise up in the air. I would look and go: "Oh, my look at this thing". I would press it back down and it would be fine"

Rarely happened again. Then as I got older, I would get spasms in my upper left muscle in my chest. This usually happened when I visited my mother in Florida (we did not get along), she was a (well, let's just say she was not a nice person).

But that passed also. Then years ago (when I was going through the crap with my son's behavior (about 10 years ago), I got bladder spasms (every test ruled out everything, so I just called them bladder spasms). One night I was in the shower and the hot water poured over me and it passed and it never happened again, thank god for that.

So about 6 months ago, my left foot started doing the spasm thing in the toes. I was laying on my bed and I started to do stretching exercises and BAM, the spasm started in my calf and I had to just wait and it went away.

So last night (in my sleep), it woke me up and my big toe was arching (all my itself, so I know this is a spasm). I tried not to panic (lasted all of one minute). I just tried to relax my body, I too my right foot and gently put it over my left foot and pried the left big toe back down. Then I sat up, slid over to the side of the bed, slowly got up, and i was fine.

Now you might be asking what happened right before bedtime. My girlfriend (the one with the alcoholic son who is driving her crazy), called me up from a motel and she was all upset about her son and she was drinking too. So I gave her support, and of course I started thinking about my own son. Not enough that I cried or anything, but I'm wondering if all the little stressors in my life (and of course the big stressor), my son, and the fact that we are trying to get a wound treatment center to see Alan and we found out that they bill as a clinic visit and it's $50 every time you go, and sometimes it's 3times a week. So we are trying to find one that bills through the hospital so there's no copay. Well could the fact that my mind has all these things going on and my body is responding with spasms.

I mean, I eat healthy, I do my walking, my PN is fine due to the Methyl B-12. I got so unnerved when I woke up this morning, the first thing I thought of was Dystonia, but I don't match any of the rest of the symptoms. This is only my toe.

I didn't have to do warm compresses or anything. It was over in 1 minute. I looked up the causes of toe spasms and they did say Diabetic Neuropathy, MS, Dystonia, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

When I have gotten these I was always lying down. Never when I'm standing, or walking. I feel perfectly fine this morning. Very confusing.
Anybody have these things besides me??

Mel