twitching

[fma11122345]

Little more worried. The last few days my right arm has felt week AND now i fear the eye twitch is early ALS

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[Fishmanpa]

Little more worried. The last few days my right arm has "felt" week AND now i fear the eye twitch is early ALS

Please read this as often as you need to. You use the word "felt" in your post and the simple fact that ALS is about "failing" not "feeling" blows this out of the water.

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[Kingdawson]

Little more worried. The last few days my right arm has felt week AND now i fear the eye twitch is early ALS

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ALS doesn't effect the eyes so impossible.

[fma11122345]

My left hand started twitching this morning......

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Strach that, bouth hands are twitching

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[Fishmanpa]

From the link...

Twitching

If you have muscle twitching and the internet says that is a symptom of ALS, pay attention. Twitching (fasciculations) is sometimes a symptom of ongoing ALS. It is seldom, if ever, a first symptom of ALS (especially if it is all over your body). Twitching is very common and is frequently caused by too much caffeine, Rx meds, fatigue, over-exertion, anxiety, stress, and many other common causes If you have twitching without clinical weakness, atrophy or hyperreflexia, your twitching is probably not from ALS, which is a very, very rare disease..

This is taken from the post of a member who saw Dr Orla Hardiman a leading ALS specialist. "I asked her about contradictory information about fasics being a precursor of MND. Here is her answer 1. As you know, fasics are common in patients with MND. But we don't look for fascics to suspect MND, we look for weakness, atrophy or change in reflexes.2. Fasics themselves are no real indicator of MND or any other disease.3. In most cases, fasics are of benign origin.4. I have NEVER had a patient with BFS who progressed in MND. And I had a lots of MND (and BFS) patients in my clinical practice.5. In most cases PALS don't even notice fasics by themselves. Usually their spouse, or someone else is the first one who notices them."

Check out Benign Fasciculation Syndrome (BFS) for the FAQ. Please note the forum administrator is no longer active so new members can not join. bfsrecovery.com appears to be nonfunctional unfortunately
Also, see Twitching, false alarm

Other Issues—
Anxiety

Anxiety can be a real problem that can endanger your physical health. It is what leads many folks to this forum, but it is a self-fueling fire—the more anxious you become, the more twitches you will have, the more you obsess with perceived weakness in your arm or leg or hand, the more dents you will find… and the more you will become convinced you have atrophy. If you can’t stop using the internet to diagnose your problems, or if you cannot stay away from this forum, that should tell you something important about your mental health.

Positive thoughts

[fma11122345]

Can It possibly be from a brain tumor though? I'm sorry if I've become a serial poster.....I don't have grate insurance or a family that believes anything I say. So hears pretty much all I have.....



Thanks

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[mrmartyd]

You sound very stressed! Anxiety causes tension in the muscles all over the body and can release a bunch of hormones in to the system, this causes havoc with your nervous system and nerve impulses start firing off randomly causing twitching. Numbness can be caused by blood rushing to parts of your body away from the surface because you are in fight or flight. The more you pay attention to these things the more anxious you will become and the more these symptoms will persist and get worse.

You really need to see a doctor and tell them everything that you're thinking. And please please don't use Google for symptoms it is the absolute worst thing you can do. If you're going to use Google, look up cyberchondria. A good way to start recovering from this is to start educating yourself on HA, anxiety in general and the bodies response to it.

I can't post links yet but go find the anxiety centre website and look up anxiety symptoms there, everything you have is listed.

[fma11122345]

Iv never hade twitching before tho and iv been much more anxious and anxiety riddled then this. Can new symptoms of anxiety just show up like that?

You sound very stressed! Anxiety causes tension in the muscles all over the body and can release a bunch of hormones in to the system, this causes havoc with your nervous system and nerve impulses start firing off randomly causing twitching. Numbness can be caused by blood rushing to parts of your body away from the surface because you are in fight or flight. The more you pay attention to these things the more anxious you will become and the more these symptoms will persist and get worse.

You really need to see a doctor and tell them everything that you're thinking. And please please don't use Google for symptoms it is the absolute worst thing you can do. If you're going to use Google, look up cyberchondria. A good way to start recovering from this is to start educating yourself on HA, anxiety in general and the bodies response to it.

I can't post links yet but go find the anxiety centre website and look up anxiety symptoms there, everything you have is listed.

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[Fishmanpa]

Its. Not. ALS!

FMP

[Amunt]

I get tingling and twitching is left eye. I afraid of MS

But anxiety can create all of these symptoms and even worst.
So i hope that its just anxiety