Flinching awake.

[Emilie.Lancaster 189]

I keep dozing off as I recover and I have this giant flinch that jiggles my whole body. This is new. Anyone else having this fresh new weirdness?

[Thursday 2]

New sleeping position? I was always a side sleepers do couldn't post op for a week. Sitting up I'd often startle awake.

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

No jerks that I remember.

But I never napped as much as I did in the two weeks post-op. It taught me much respect for the value of a deep, short nap.

[Emilie.Lancaster 189]

I told a friend about this happening and she said it's called a Hypnic jerk or a sleep Start. It's the pain killers, she says. The brain gets confused between processes and hits the reset. Huh. Interesting, but painful. It will stop with the drugs.

[NaomiAus 104]

If it's what I'm thinking of, and it happens to me from time to time, while your in that nearly asleep state, your breathing and heartbeat is slowing down a little too much and your brain will give you a jolt to make sure your breathing enough