rudiskacel
19-09-15, 02:29
Is it possible for anxiety to mimic diseases like ALS/MND? For close to 8 months now (nonstop) I've been having symptoms that I have chalked up to anxiety, but keep fearing that I have ALS, at the young age of 20.
It started in January when I got a cramp in my hand and went on to google to see what it could be, low and behold I came across ALS. I looked through all the symptoms and none seemed to match except the cramp symptom, which went away in the next few days.
A few days later I developed
-Difficulty Swallowing (which has subsdided a little now)
-Nasal Voice, although whenever I ask a friend if it's nasal they say no
-Percieved Slurring, I have recorded myself and it appears there is no slurring, but my mind keeps thinking I am slurring.
-Twitches all over my body, normally big throbbing muscle twitches, almost like a heartbeat.
-My right arm FEELS like it's weak but when I test my strength I can still lift the same amount of weight as I could before.
-I am always clearing my throat, it's constant
-Thick, sticky and stringy mucus that is clear
-The feeling of Mucus at the back og my throat and in my throat
Basically what I'm asking is - are all these symptoms possible side-effects of anxiety or is it more likely that I have ALS/MND than have all these 'anxiety' symptoms at once. As I said I am only 20 so the chances of me having ALS are literally in the 1 in a million category but you never know. I just can't seem to shake the fear of this disease. I wish i could because I feel like the symptoms would finally go away if I persuaded myself it wasn't ALS.
Any Advice??
P.S I'm sorry I have to come here and post threads every month or so, but I need to vent sometimes :weep:
It started in January when I got a cramp in my hand and went on to google to see what it could be, low and behold I came across ALS. I looked through all the symptoms and none seemed to match except the cramp symptom, which went away in the next few days.
A few days later I developed
-Difficulty Swallowing (which has subsdided a little now)
-Nasal Voice, although whenever I ask a friend if it's nasal they say no
-Percieved Slurring, I have recorded myself and it appears there is no slurring, but my mind keeps thinking I am slurring.
-Twitches all over my body, normally big throbbing muscle twitches, almost like a heartbeat.
-My right arm FEELS like it's weak but when I test my strength I can still lift the same amount of weight as I could before.
-I am always clearing my throat, it's constant
-Thick, sticky and stringy mucus that is clear
-The feeling of Mucus at the back og my throat and in my throat
Basically what I'm asking is - are all these symptoms possible side-effects of anxiety or is it more likely that I have ALS/MND than have all these 'anxiety' symptoms at once. As I said I am only 20 so the chances of me having ALS are literally in the 1 in a million category but you never know. I just can't seem to shake the fear of this disease. I wish i could because I feel like the symptoms would finally go away if I persuaded myself it wasn't ALS.
Any Advice??
P.S I'm sorry I have to come here and post threads every month or so, but I need to vent sometimes :weep: