Cat slightly shivering when lying down?

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My 18yo pussy has been having problems with this for some time now - when she's lying down, more often than not, she tends to shiver a bit. It's not constant shivering and it's definitely less vigorous than shivering when you're cold or such. Nonetheless, it happens more or less every time she tries to lay down in a position different than this pretzel-shape that cats do.

Sometimes you see these tiny "jumps" of the whole body, sometimes just the head but it looks as if it were annoying for her. Similar things happen when you hold it in a position like this: http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID39608/images/a_lap_cat-5.JPG  (yeah, I know, quite a cat!), namely they her rear paws tend to shake.

Nothing of this sort happens in any other circumstance - she runs like mad, jumps, fights, eats and urinates normally, isn't dejected or anything. The only situation this happens is when she's stationary and in a lying-down-like position.

What may that be? She's had a general check-up at the vet lately and nothing worrying was found, also she had blood works done cause she had a bit of a problem with her kidneys but also nothing wrong was found.
 

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Is it possible she's purring very quietly and you aren't hearing it? I only ask because I recently scared myself with the same thing about my cat. I hope she's fine!
 
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Is it possible she's purring very quietly and you aren't hearing it? I only ask because I recently scared myself with the same thing about my cat. I hope she's fine!
I doubt it, to be honest. The shivering associated with purring is usually rather stable in rhythm while this one is rather like: nothing-nothing-nothing-slight shiver-nothing-nothing-head bounce and so on. The thing I described doesn't take as long as reading this does, of course, I just described it for clarity.
 

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Two of mine do some sort of weird twitching thing.  One of them does it when he's wrapped around my shoulders, and his hind legs will start twitching as they hang over my shoulder.  The other cat does it when she seems to be sleeping. 

I've mentioned this to my Vet and she has asked me questions regarding them both, but doesn't seem to think it's anything to worry about.

Was this discussed at your latest Vet visit?  If not, then i would at least give them a call and ask what they think.  My Vet is really good about letting my just call about things. 
 
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