MrLurcher
20-10-20, 11:22
Sighs. My HA has been flaring up a bit recently after having an ok few months.
I read the story about that rugby player who was diagnosed with MND last year and who's first symptom was speech slurring.
Now this triggered me into worrying about my speech.
I don't know if this is an anxiety or a nervous thing, but quite often in public settings I end being tongue tied. When I play football and if I shout across the pitch, I often get words jumbled up and mis-pronounce things. I feel very self-conscious when speaking in public, especially in groups, and I'm starting to worry a bit now as it seems to have gotten worse over the last year or so. It either feels I'm rushing my words or I'm just 'struggling to speak'. I don't know how long this has been going on for.
My speech has been affected in someways for the past couple of years. For a long period last year, but voice used to contantly break, which was pretty embarrasing.
For the last 3-4 months I've also been getting like very mild spasms/cramps in my tongue, which is adding fuel to this fire. And also dry foods like biscuits feels like they get stuck at the back of my throat when swallowing.
Does anyone else have issues like this, or have suffered? Because I'm bordering on an MND spiral now. Is it a social anxiety thing? Because I've always had some symptoms of that like sweating, avoiding situations, a fear of being judged, dry mouth etc
I read the story about that rugby player who was diagnosed with MND last year and who's first symptom was speech slurring.
Now this triggered me into worrying about my speech.
I don't know if this is an anxiety or a nervous thing, but quite often in public settings I end being tongue tied. When I play football and if I shout across the pitch, I often get words jumbled up and mis-pronounce things. I feel very self-conscious when speaking in public, especially in groups, and I'm starting to worry a bit now as it seems to have gotten worse over the last year or so. It either feels I'm rushing my words or I'm just 'struggling to speak'. I don't know how long this has been going on for.
My speech has been affected in someways for the past couple of years. For a long period last year, but voice used to contantly break, which was pretty embarrasing.
For the last 3-4 months I've also been getting like very mild spasms/cramps in my tongue, which is adding fuel to this fire. And also dry foods like biscuits feels like they get stuck at the back of my throat when swallowing.
Does anyone else have issues like this, or have suffered? Because I'm bordering on an MND spiral now. Is it a social anxiety thing? Because I've always had some symptoms of that like sweating, avoiding situations, a fear of being judged, dry mouth etc