Moscowolympics
11-12-14, 13:55
Hello everyone
Since July of this year, my muscles have been twitching. The twitching has been everywhere: from my nose, tongue and lips to my hands, chest, bottom, thighs, calves and feet. Absolutely everywhere.
It's been quite sporadic in terms of intensity and seems to vary in terms of how anxious I am feeling. I think during late-July I had something of a breakdown, frankly, after a very tough year: relatives passing, a drawn-out relationship breakdown that lasted for months, moving home to live with my parents, pressures of work and saving and learning to drive. I think my body just eventually gave up.
However, these twitches coincided with googling. I won't say what, but I'm sure you can all guess.
I'm very sure there's nothing seriously wrong with me aside from what's going on in my head. I can still perform all the tasks I could months ago and I don't suffer from any clinical weakness.
Yet the fact these twitches still come is bothering me. I have been on About BFS but I try to stay off there because of the various illnesses they talk about. I should stay off forums full stop, frankly, but I can't help it and I do find NMP very helpful and one of the more friendlier ones. Anyway, I do think I've got a form of BFS, but the twitching doesn't affect me 24/7.
Yet whenever I feel I can't do anything as precisely as I want to I begin to panic; I have done (and occasionally still do, but not as frequently) silly tests with my hands and feet and self-test myself by doing tests one would do with a neurologist.
I have mentioned all this to my counsellor and she said the twitches are nothing to worry about and that she suffers from them occasionally herself, while I have mentioned them to my GP during the times I've visited and he's never sent me to a neurologist or anything. The last time I went to my GP was in October for a review of my medication (Citalopram 20mg), which he has now put on repeat.
I'm just after some reassurance, I guess. I'm a lot better than I was back in July but I still have some way to go. If anyone else can empathise with the above I would love to hear from you. Or anyone for that matter!
Since July of this year, my muscles have been twitching. The twitching has been everywhere: from my nose, tongue and lips to my hands, chest, bottom, thighs, calves and feet. Absolutely everywhere.
It's been quite sporadic in terms of intensity and seems to vary in terms of how anxious I am feeling. I think during late-July I had something of a breakdown, frankly, after a very tough year: relatives passing, a drawn-out relationship breakdown that lasted for months, moving home to live with my parents, pressures of work and saving and learning to drive. I think my body just eventually gave up.
However, these twitches coincided with googling. I won't say what, but I'm sure you can all guess.
I'm very sure there's nothing seriously wrong with me aside from what's going on in my head. I can still perform all the tasks I could months ago and I don't suffer from any clinical weakness.
Yet the fact these twitches still come is bothering me. I have been on About BFS but I try to stay off there because of the various illnesses they talk about. I should stay off forums full stop, frankly, but I can't help it and I do find NMP very helpful and one of the more friendlier ones. Anyway, I do think I've got a form of BFS, but the twitching doesn't affect me 24/7.
Yet whenever I feel I can't do anything as precisely as I want to I begin to panic; I have done (and occasionally still do, but not as frequently) silly tests with my hands and feet and self-test myself by doing tests one would do with a neurologist.
I have mentioned all this to my counsellor and she said the twitches are nothing to worry about and that she suffers from them occasionally herself, while I have mentioned them to my GP during the times I've visited and he's never sent me to a neurologist or anything. The last time I went to my GP was in October for a review of my medication (Citalopram 20mg), which he has now put on repeat.
I'm just after some reassurance, I guess. I'm a lot better than I was back in July but I still have some way to go. If anyone else can empathise with the above I would love to hear from you. Or anyone for that matter!