What's the difference - so spams always have pain, twitching is just movement? I get both.

Jim does too. For him the spasms cause the leg to contract and bounce uncontrollably. The twitches just make him sing the Bedrock Twitch. LOL

His doctor calls the twitch Clonis. It causes him to have trouble wearing shoes.

Twitch is from the nerve

Spasm is from the muscle.


if the muscle is all tensed up, and rolled over, that is spasm. if you just have a jumpy area, and it has a ripple effect, that is a twitch.

Hope that helps.

If I understand your question right . . .

I don't always have pain with the spasms. Sometimes my muscles tighten up and you can see they are in a tight knot but for some reason they don't always hurt or cause pain, just uncomfortable. Sometimes they do hurt like a charley horse and other times I can feel the tendons being pulled, which hurts. When the tendons do that, my foot gets all contorted and stuck.

I also get spasms during the night that make me flop all over like a fish out of water. I hate those nights as it makes making my bed more work in the morning. LOL

I think, for me, it is a combination of a high pain tolerance and also pain messages getting mixed up along the way to my brain.

I get twitches but they rarely ever hurt unless it is more of a nervy type twitch. They are annoying. I mostly get the twitching in my arm and the nerve related twitch in my legs. The nerve ones feel like a stabbing burning type pain along with the twitching.

My left (bad) leg hurts, knee flies up I call it "I'm, spazzing out." Sometimes my leg just bends up with knee high without pain. I'm in chair all waking moments,
Stuffed a small down pillow in lower back, leg doing better. Maybe it's a touch of siatica. Or hamstring not getting enough stretching or leg not used for weight bearing.