lauraloo
10-06-13, 19:48
hello all i am knew to this site but im really hoping you wonderful people can help me out!
I am an 18 year old female and sooo worried that i might have ALS (MND) basically 11 weeks ago i gave birth to my son who unfortunately passed away so i dont know if this has fueled my phobia of death and health anxiety as i was in hospital for a week after getting a womb infection. A week after leaving the hospital i started getting twitched in my lower right leg which i thought could have been a blood clot from being on bed rest for so long. after an ultrasound it was found that i dont have one, within the space of a couple weeks the aching went into both legs, shoulders and arms. They did a range of blood tests for diabetes anemia ect and all was fine, my left arm over night became increasingly achy and went floppy and unable to do some normal daily activities luckily this passed after a few days however last week i woke up and both my arms/hands are like it but much worse, my right one in particular which is more worrying as its my writing hand, i have been up to a+e soo many times and seen the doctors countless times and been told so many different stupid things like restless leg sydrome, muscular aching ect but now im in so much panic because i put in weakness and twitching into google and every site said ALS the twitching is constant and all over my body, my hand is so weak that it keeps flopping of my keyboard and eating with a spoon is sooo hard. i havent eaten in 4 days so completely drained and my legs are weak. im tired all the time but cant stay asleep, im so sure its als that ive been in tears every day to my partner saying i dont want to die that way. ive been a complete mess. the on call doctor was out last night and said he thinks its a slip disk in my back or trapped nerve because ive been getting shooting pains and aching from my back down my arm but he said he doesnt understand why i would get it even with being in hospital on strict bed rest for a week, im due to have a mri soon and a emg and really worried thats the day im going to be told it looks like ALS. Please
I am an 18 year old female and sooo worried that i might have ALS (MND) basically 11 weeks ago i gave birth to my son who unfortunately passed away so i dont know if this has fueled my phobia of death and health anxiety as i was in hospital for a week after getting a womb infection. A week after leaving the hospital i started getting twitched in my lower right leg which i thought could have been a blood clot from being on bed rest for so long. after an ultrasound it was found that i dont have one, within the space of a couple weeks the aching went into both legs, shoulders and arms. They did a range of blood tests for diabetes anemia ect and all was fine, my left arm over night became increasingly achy and went floppy and unable to do some normal daily activities luckily this passed after a few days however last week i woke up and both my arms/hands are like it but much worse, my right one in particular which is more worrying as its my writing hand, i have been up to a+e soo many times and seen the doctors countless times and been told so many different stupid things like restless leg sydrome, muscular aching ect but now im in so much panic because i put in weakness and twitching into google and every site said ALS the twitching is constant and all over my body, my hand is so weak that it keeps flopping of my keyboard and eating with a spoon is sooo hard. i havent eaten in 4 days so completely drained and my legs are weak. im tired all the time but cant stay asleep, im so sure its als that ive been in tears every day to my partner saying i dont want to die that way. ive been a complete mess. the on call doctor was out last night and said he thinks its a slip disk in my back or trapped nerve because ive been getting shooting pains and aching from my back down my arm but he said he doesnt understand why i would get it even with being in hospital on strict bed rest for a week, im due to have a mri soon and a emg and really worried thats the day im going to be told it looks like ALS. Please