Adamski1
13-11-14, 16:33
Hi all.
I'm looking for some reassurance and also need to vent my concerns somewhere.
I posted previously about twitch and cramping for 2 months. My issues howevere started in May with general malaise and chest pain.
So I'm now two and a half months in to twitching. It can affect me anywhere but is persistent throughout my left calf and scary ones in my face and now neck. The calf twitches are like bubbling under the skin. I can't always see them but certainly feel them. The twitches in my face are very light quick pulses, sometimes they make my face itch. Both eyes are affected at different times. I keep waking up in the night with large pulsating twitches in my shoulders or stomach whilst also still able to feel them in my calves (mainly left). I have severe leg pain / burning / cramping (mainly in calves) every time I am sitting down, this is affecting both legs in the same way. This is continuos ever time I sit and disappears when standing. This pain has been going on for two months now.
My concerns are not only the twitching and leg pain for over 2 months but two things I hadn't even associated with it all previously. They are joints cracking, and I mean every joint cracking, all the time. Wrists, elbows, shoulders, neck, knees etc. The other concern is waking up in the night with numb arms and fingers. This affects both arms from the elbow down to the ring and little fingers. This I understand is quite concerning with the fact I am worrying about als.
I can't get this worry out of my head. The world is passing me by and I'm to busy reading symptoms for this, that and the other. I can't stop thinking about what might happen to my wife and children should it be worse case scenario.
I saw my gp at the beginning of this week who I had seen a month earlier regarding all these issues (I have had so many gp visits in the last few months for general aches and pains). A month ago he wasn't to concerned and said come back in a month to see how I was getting on. He said he would order an EMG test to put his and my mind at rest but said he is pretty certain it's is not als as I have no muscle loss or clinical weakness. At the appointment on Monday he seemed concerned I was still having issues and got me a neurologist referral there and then. It's for the 11th December. I am still waiting for the EMG ordered a month ago.
All of this is getting too much for me now. I really am struggling to cope with it all.
Any help or advice is more than welcome.
Adam.
I'm looking for some reassurance and also need to vent my concerns somewhere.
I posted previously about twitch and cramping for 2 months. My issues howevere started in May with general malaise and chest pain.
So I'm now two and a half months in to twitching. It can affect me anywhere but is persistent throughout my left calf and scary ones in my face and now neck. The calf twitches are like bubbling under the skin. I can't always see them but certainly feel them. The twitches in my face are very light quick pulses, sometimes they make my face itch. Both eyes are affected at different times. I keep waking up in the night with large pulsating twitches in my shoulders or stomach whilst also still able to feel them in my calves (mainly left). I have severe leg pain / burning / cramping (mainly in calves) every time I am sitting down, this is affecting both legs in the same way. This is continuos ever time I sit and disappears when standing. This pain has been going on for two months now.
My concerns are not only the twitching and leg pain for over 2 months but two things I hadn't even associated with it all previously. They are joints cracking, and I mean every joint cracking, all the time. Wrists, elbows, shoulders, neck, knees etc. The other concern is waking up in the night with numb arms and fingers. This affects both arms from the elbow down to the ring and little fingers. This I understand is quite concerning with the fact I am worrying about als.
I can't get this worry out of my head. The world is passing me by and I'm to busy reading symptoms for this, that and the other. I can't stop thinking about what might happen to my wife and children should it be worse case scenario.
I saw my gp at the beginning of this week who I had seen a month earlier regarding all these issues (I have had so many gp visits in the last few months for general aches and pains). A month ago he wasn't to concerned and said come back in a month to see how I was getting on. He said he would order an EMG test to put his and my mind at rest but said he is pretty certain it's is not als as I have no muscle loss or clinical weakness. At the appointment on Monday he seemed concerned I was still having issues and got me a neurologist referral there and then. It's for the 11th December. I am still waiting for the EMG ordered a month ago.
All of this is getting too much for me now. I really am struggling to cope with it all.
Any help or advice is more than welcome.
Adam.