this thread has been here for a month and still no solution?
I'm amazed! I really didn't think I'd find another soul with the same problem as me. After reading many of the posts I've concluded it's nothing to worry about. I have a lot of stress in my life and it does some wierd nerve things to me. I'm throwing this issue onto that growing list of things.
Thank god i found this page!! I've been having the same thing for 3/4 days now. Comes and goes and lasts about 1-2 seconds each time. Not painful, not irritating. Just very strange, like a small electrical current, or tiny bubbles almost.
If it doesn't stop it might drive me insane! ... but glad to know the consensus is that its not anything serious.
I have experienced the same "sensation". As like all of the other posts, it is not painful, but has a vibrating type feeling. It starts for a few seconds, then stops and starts again. Someone posted that Advil or similar anti-inflammatory medicine helped. Has this worked for anyone else?
From what i have found on the net is diabetes or possible worms. Both scary only one is permanent, but treatable.
My "vibrations" started first in my legs, vaginal area, and sometimes on the arms. I had heard this could be caused from Cholesterol medication (mevacor generic, I think lovostatin) which I had been taking for 20 years, so I changed medication to the Lipitor generic and the vibrations lessened quite a bit, but I heard that sometimes using that coujld cause diabetes and my doctor changed me to pravastatin and after 5 days is when the anal twitching began. So I don't know if it is related or just a coincidence. I changed back to the Atorvastatin (lipitor) and it has lessened but I still get the twitching now and then. Still have the vibrations in legs and other areas but usually I can ignore it. I'll try going back to the Pravastatin and see if it increases again and then I'll know if it's related.
I have had the same problem. It will happen for a few days and then go away for a while, and then return. I have noticed that it happens when I eat a lot of junk food, such as Mc Donald's, Hungry Jacks (Burger King for USA). The solution that seems to work for me is that I will start to eat clean for a few days with exercise and it seems to go away.
I don't know if this is the answer to solving the problem but it's what works for me.
After a fall in April I started getting that buzzing sensation in my upper left quadrant area. It was like I had a bee or cell phone in my bra buzzing away. Every time I felt the area I could not feel the buzzing. It buzzes off and on then nothing for about 3 minutes then intermittent buzzing again. Aggravation of the injury of my prior fall, I now have that buzzing sensation in my right lower quadrant, I go to feel it and though I can sense the buzzing, I can't feel it with my hand. After 18 months of jumping from my PC to one specialist to another, the one specialist that aggravated my injury from the fall, this lower buzzing started along with more pain and swelling than normal in my left quadrant area. When processed food would get to my lower descending colon area I had horrific pain. Now two weeks later my entire descending bowel (top to bottom) hurts after eating forcing the already processed food into my descending colon. I went on line and did even more research than I had before and found the North Penn Hernia Institute and when I got to the referred pain section, I was shocked to see I had 100% of the symptoms, I had an appointment with my PC in 10 days and when I went in I said I was tired of being in pain and the specialists only focusing on a little bursitis that showed on my images. I told my PC that I wanted to be tested for an Inguinal hernia. Two days later I had and ultrasound, the next day I saw my PC again and she said yes, I have a left Inguinal Hernia. Who knew that the nerves in our inguinal canal could cause such havoc on our bodies. In my case, I feel that it is my ascending colon and descending colon causing the buzzing sensation. I think my hernia is causing some spasms in my colon and that causes my buzzing sensation. To say it is like an eye twitch, to me is wrong. When my eye twitches I don't have a buzzing sensation, only a twitching sensation. If you think something is wrong, keep doing your research. If I didn't continue my research to my symptoms from my fall, I wouldn't have an answer to my problem. If you are past 25 years of age and older, we know our bodies and know when something is not right. Just because a dozen specialists can't find the problem, doesn't mean you don't have something going on. I just hope that after 18 months of no diagnosis, that the nerves in my inguinal canal are not permanently damaged. One thing that evey single physician I saw whould have taken into consideration, is that i told each and every one of them that when I fell and crashed onto my Iliac Crest that I felt like I was perforated, like my bowels or bladder were perforated. I was close I had a tear in my stomach wall. On another note, I have found multiple other sites where others had this buzzing sensation, some thought it was from and IUD, well that wasn't me because I had a hysterectomy years ago. Some thought it was neurological and another site thought it was related to MS. So just know that there are hundreds possible thousands of us that have this weird buzzing going on,
It's your bowls. The bowls are trying to contract to bring on a bowl movement. It happens when you are having irritable bowls. I have had it for a while on and off and this is what I deduce from what I have experienced. No long term or major problem - just weird.
I agree. I get this but only after having too greasy of a meal!
I have it, too. I'm wondering if it is a "buzzing" caused by a fluttering, tiny valve in a vein in the area. Veins have tiny valves so that the deoxygenated blood can travel back to the heart without any back-flow. Arteries--that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart--don't have the tiny valves.
Since the rectum/anus area is kind of an evolutionary weak area blood-vessel-wise (hence all the hemorrhoids), a fluttering tiny valve could have its signal picked up by a close-by nerve, and that might explain the sensation we feel. You may not have hemorrhoids, but that area may be a somewhat weak area, or an overly stressed area for you.
Mine doesn't correspond exactly with my pulse, but if the hemorrhoid/valve theory is correct, then it might have to do with a weak-ish valve that only buzzes when the blood builds up against it, and then it flutters as it releases the pent-up blood. That might explain the rhythmic nature of the buzzing.
That's my best guess. I don't think it's dangerous or will progress to something worse. It is annoying, but... it's still good to be alive; buzzing butt and all. I'm going to try and forget about it. I've got other things to worry about. : )
Rude...what are you doing on the internet reading this if you are just so smart? you're a worm!
I am a relieved and a little amused to see all these comments in this thread because I TOO have been having this very odd sensation. It started a couple of days ago and has been continuous and ongoing, but intermittent - every 16, 23 50 seconds I feel a faint buzzing inside my rectum, left side. I'ts not painful or unplesant, but very very odd, and I wish it would go away. I finally told my husband about it last night, even though I was hesitant. I mean, how do you casually describe a buzzing in your butt, right? Weird. For the record, I'm fairly active, have no health issues that I know of... no hemorrhoids... no bowel problems. No back door sex. This vibrating thing just started completely out of the blue. And really does feel like a cellphone vibration. I'm quite surprised it came up in a Google search, but I'm glad it did.