Re: Twitiching
Originally Posted by
AcroSplat
Ok Ive had muscle twitching for about 7 weeks now. My Gp says it's Anxiety, but i keep thinking Motor Nurone Disease/ALS.
Ive managed not to google for a few weeks and have started to feel better mentally, (but still the twitches and other symptoms persist.) However i just googled ALS Patient stories to find out their first sypmtoms. I was confident that it would confirm my feelings, that i have anxiety, but it did the opposite.
One woman described the muscle twitching as Popcorn Sensations in her leg.
I actaully get this feeling. This woman was also passed off by drs as having Anxiety.
I have 2 types of twitches:
- 1 single twitch, which is like a pop, or bubble feeling in my muscle which lasts for 1 second only. I get these all over.
- Vibration of a muscle which vibrate for a 2 - 4 seconds
Who else gets these ? Are they both the same thing ?
My other symptoms include a weak feeling left arm. The muscles in my upper arm hurt a bit...... a bit more like a dull ache when i use my left arm. I would rate the pain a 3 out of 10.
Im also getting this minor jerking feeling. Sometimes it occurs in my legs in which the leg moves ever so slightly. Other times it feels as if my upper body wants to jerk. Feels like its comming from my waist and obdomen area. The Dr said the twitches and jerking were all related.
Overall, how long is this ment to last. Having all these symptoms is 100% abnormal for me which is why im having so much trouble believing it.
All over twitching is not indicative of a ALS/MND presentation in the least. The twitching in MND is pretty much the last act of a dead muscle and it comes after objective muscle weakness and objective atrophy. To equate twitching alone with ALS/MND is out of date and totally incorrect.
How long is it meant to last? My twitching, aching, buzzing, vibrating, cramping etc etc has been going on for pretty much a year to the day! It will last as long as it takes for your bodies nervous system to reset itself and too recover from the damage that accumulated anxiety has done to it....the longer you interpret these sensations as the symptoms of a terminal disease the longer you will go on stressing your CNS and therefore the longer you will stay in the loop.
I do not Google my sensations any longer as from an early stage it became quite obvious to me that no good or reassurance will come from it. You say you wanted to find evidence that your sensations where anxiety and not ALS, well instead of going to an ALS board just look at all the anxiety boards that are chock-a-block with people who twitch and who have twitched for years and who suffer from anxiety....why would you be any different?
I do not think it is fair that you bring back ALS testimonies to this sort of forum. People choose not to Google as you can stumble across totally unverified and untributed information that you can take as fact and that will send you into a downward spiral....you have obviously done this and I supsect you then get the urge to have to share this information is order to purge and 'share out' the anxiety that this has caused you, this is not fair as people who visit here may not, by definition, be mentally strong enough themselves at this moment in their lives to handle this.
ALS and MS are incredibly common concerns of health anxiety sufferers and this is because that they effect the same part of the body. You need to accept that ALS and MS symptoms are caused by organic disease whilst anxiety sensations are caused in the first instance by our minds and that this then gets reflected physically....ever so real but benign and ultimatly controlable.
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