pity4me
12-03-17, 09:41
Morning guys,
Is it a coincidence or would it be very bad luck if you were to look at a illness, see it's symptoms and then suddenly start to experience them? I only ask as I have gone down the ALS rabbit hole and quite simply l have now become so paranoid about my speech and mouth and tongue movements, that in a space of 3 weeks l am finding that I think I am slurring words.
Now it must be said that I speak 2 languages and it's my second language which has become a bit funny, no one has said anything to me, only after I have mentioned about this has someone said I am sometimes getting stuck on words.
Speaking English is fine but in my mind it feels sometimes words are being said funnily, I have been cleared by 2 Neurologists who said l don't have any clinical issues.
My question is then am I so hypervigilant about my speech, tongue, mouth and throat movements that I am now looking at justifying the symptoms? I mean can anxiety do this in the space of a few weeks? Before looking at bulbar onset l would never have known, and it feels like when I really think about it, I get all tensed up in my throat, under my tongue and speech is then bad, basically I'm scared to talk nowadays as I am hearing and listening to what I'm saying. Guys am l worrying myself to death? :scared15:
Is it a coincidence or would it be very bad luck if you were to look at a illness, see it's symptoms and then suddenly start to experience them? I only ask as I have gone down the ALS rabbit hole and quite simply l have now become so paranoid about my speech and mouth and tongue movements, that in a space of 3 weeks l am finding that I think I am slurring words.
Now it must be said that I speak 2 languages and it's my second language which has become a bit funny, no one has said anything to me, only after I have mentioned about this has someone said I am sometimes getting stuck on words.
Speaking English is fine but in my mind it feels sometimes words are being said funnily, I have been cleared by 2 Neurologists who said l don't have any clinical issues.
My question is then am I so hypervigilant about my speech, tongue, mouth and throat movements that I am now looking at justifying the symptoms? I mean can anxiety do this in the space of a few weeks? Before looking at bulbar onset l would never have known, and it feels like when I really think about it, I get all tensed up in my throat, under my tongue and speech is then bad, basically I'm scared to talk nowadays as I am hearing and listening to what I'm saying. Guys am l worrying myself to death? :scared15: