EMDR after effects?

I'm not sure if this is where I should post this question or not... Sorry if this is the wrong forum...

I've been receiving EMDR therapy for the last month. Both at the end and after the last couple of sessions, I've gotten random muscle twitches that occur for the next few hours after. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar or has an explanation?

I experienced the same thing when I had EMDR,only my muscle twitches tended to occur more durring the session than afterwards, but on occassion, they continued after the session. I think it's the body's way of releasing the stored trauma/tension.

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I did not have muscle issues but I could not get some of the imagery out of my head for weeks. I would experience random crying as these images would reappear. I have not talked about with anyone as I put it out of my mind...but reading your post did remind me of it.

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Yes , I have expericed this sort of things too , muscle twitching and odd jerks which I understand as releasing.

I get face twitches during EMDR but they are not very noticeable

Oh my goodness! So glad to read this!! I had my second session Wednesday and during the session my body kept twitching! My therapist said its cause I hold all the trauma in my body and this is the processing of the traumas. She has told me that during the week after, I will continue to process. I would assume that it is just your continued processing and it is a good thing!

EMDR for me has been the main kind of PTSD therapy that has really made a significant impact for helping me. The therapist I am working with now is using a different kind of PTSD therapy on me and i willing to try it....I am willing to try much of anything to try to help myself with all the BS I went through in my life. The one thing he keeps doing or saying that is getting under my skin is that he does not feel that after I work with him I need to do EMDR therapy again. He thinks that working with him, and what he is doing it will get me over things.

I have traumatic stuff happening to me since I was a kid, my father was both verbally and physically abusive to me. Not in the I am going to beat you black and blue kind of sense but to the point I was terrified to go with him on the weekends he had me (divorce parents from age of 4).

At first I didn't see what he did as wrong, it was just him being more physically then he need to be around me. But when I got older I did realize it still was wrong and it was abuse wither it was intended to hurt or not was besides the point.

My mother and I have always had a difficult relationship with each other ever since I turned 18 it seems she gives off an impression to me narassism, and she was always verbally abusive to me. She still can be at times.
And she refuses to see when she is incorrect about something and might need help with it. But ironically has no issue telling me when I have slipped up in some way.
I have also been abused and manipulated by friends, to the point of being used and stolen from.

And sexually abused multiple times.

So hearing a therapist even one I have worked with as long as I have with my own. Tell me I should not seek out EMD therapy after I work with him is just a croak to me. I mean for me and all the issues I have I am probably going to continue to be doing to therapy for a long time. And isn't it my choice if I want to have or make long term goals in my therapy life ? lol just input from my situation

but yes EMDR is really effective and a good method to use, it probably dosn't work for everyone but it did work well for me.

Not sure if this is where I should ask this. I am starting DBT December 1st.
My therapist sugested I begin EMDR soon. Any thought on how effective this is.
I am very new to all this and it is very scary.

I am pretty new to EMDR, so I can't fully say how the end results of it are, but I can say that the memories that I have worked on 'have less teeth' or less grip on me. They are still awful memories, and they really suck, but they don't have the same power that they did before I processed them.

I think the hardest part of EMDR for me was adjusting to how strange it is, and to strike a rhythm with the therapist (since I have only worked with her for EMDR, she was trying to get more info/backstory than I was comfortable sharing yet.)

Had my first last week and I twitched up a storm. My hand was shacking one day and I could not work week with my right hand so I tried using my left... that was entertaining for about 5 mins. Hope things get better.

I want to try Emdr also but I am scared to death, Especially after hearing what every one is saying about it

I don't recall getting muscle twitches, but I do get extremely exhausted to the point of being unable to function. I can't necessarily sleep, but I can't function for a few days if the emdr addressed particularly difficult situation(s)...

Hope it works despite the twitches. I've found it helpful with many memories, but it's certainly challenging to do...

It does get easier as it progresses , It would sometimes knock me out early on and I would get very tired , but it is worth it. It's good to share experiences here about the things that happen. Quite recently in my EMDR I've felt like it's lanced a wound that's full of poison and I've felt weak and tired like you do after an operation , but its healing. My T said it was a good sign. I do think EMDR is very good for trauma.