Waking up with garbled speech

[nicegirl27]

The past two, maybe three mornings I have woke up saying words that make no sense - garbed speech I believe the term is. Anyone ever had this? I will be going to hospital soon to get tested for MS, the MRI seems positive for it though, and I have all the symptoms.

Anyone ever woke up like this, r might know what causes this? Thank you x

[supermum_ms]

Hi again,

"Aphasia is an impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write. Aphasia is always due to injury to the brain-most commonly from a stroke, particularly in older individuals. But brain injuries resulting in aphasia may also arise from head trauma, from brain tumors, or from infections.

Aphasia can be so severe as to make communication with the patient almost impossible, or it can be very mild. It may affect mainly a single aspect of language use, such as the ability to retrieve the names of objects, or the ability to put words together into sentences, or the ability to read. More commonly, however, multiple aspects of communication are impaired, while some channels remain accessible for a limited exchange of information."
https://www.aphasia.org/aphasia-definitions/

People with MS usually have a few distinctive language problems: “Scanning" speech, when a person's normal speech pattern is disrupted with long pauses between words or syllables. Slurring words. It usually happens because of weak tongue, lip, and mouth muscles. Trouble changing tone of voice. Nasal-sounding speech.

There are two types of speech disorders that occur in MS, dysarthrias and dysphonias. Speech problems where the motor muscle components of speech are affected are  dysarthrias (these typically affect volume control and articulation) while speech problems that affect voice quality are dysphonias.

Two Types of Speech Disorders in MS

Dysarthrias:
Motor speech disorders
Impaired volume control: voice becomes too quiet or loud
Impaired articulation: speech becomes slurred
Impaired emphasis: speech becomes slowed or broken up with inappropriate pauses, difficulty applying appropriate stress on words or varying pitches and loudness for emphasis

Dysphonias:
Disorders of voice quality
Harshness in voice from spasticity or excess muscle tone
Impaired pitch control from tremor or spasticity in vocal cords causing pitch breaks or monotone quality
Hypernasality caused by weakness or lack of coordination in soft palate
Pitch level irregularities (too high or low) caused by changes in muscle tone
Breathiness caused by lack of coordination in vocal cords
Hoarseness caused by vocal cords coming together too tightly and too loosely"
https://multiplesclerosis.net/symptoms/speech-difficulties/

In regards to what you've described, it wouldn't specifically be suggestive or consistent as a symptom of a neurological condition like MS, mainly because what you are experiencing is situation specific, at no other time, and there are other more common cause. Keep in mind that waking up and not having clear speech for a few minutes may be nothing more than still being half asleep and your not actually fully conscious yet....associated conditions i'm aware of are things like Sleep Paralysis, Migraine, Mental health conditions eg Anxiety, conversion disorder etc, sleep conditions eg sleep apnea etc there probably other but i'm not aware of them sorry.

I actually responded to your last question and after looking through your original posts, the MRI evidence you mention over 4+ years wouldn't typically of been suggestive or consistent with a neurological condition like MS and i'd still highly recommended you keep an open mind as to causation with these tests because you just might be dealing with a very different medical condition...

Hope that helps.......JJ

[nicegirl27]

I believe the more accurate term is aphasia