Arm weakness

[always scared]

Arm weakness. Please help talk me down from spiralling out of control.

All-day today my arms feel weird. They feel achy/weak and crampy

My hands also feel weak and crampy. Everything feels so weird. I'm also having twitching in my legs too. I'm a mess. I don't want to fall down the ALS hole. Please help

[always scared]

Im so freaking out. Both my forearms feel weird. They feel weak, tight, achy and crampy all at the same time. My legs are also feel strange. lots of twitching and toe cramping. I'm so scared.

[nomorepanic]

Hi

This is just a courtesy reply to let you know that your post was moved from its original place to a sub-forum that is more relevant to your issue.

This is nothing personal - it just enables us to keep posts about the same problems in the relevant forums so other members with any experience with the issues can find them more easily.

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[Fishmanpa]

Both my forearms feel weird. They feel weak

Clinical Weakness—ALS is about failing, not feeling.

ALS is about failure—falling down, being unable to stand on your toes, being unable to button your shirt, being unable to lift your hand, etc. It is not about these things becoming more difficult. It is about these things being impossible… no matter how hard you try. If you can do normal things, but it is more difficult, you do not have ALS. If you used to be able to do 100 curls and now one arm can only do 50; that is not ALS. If you used to run 2 miles and now you can only run 1; that is not ALS. If you used to run 2 miles and now you can’t lift up one of your feet, you may have clinical weakness.
It really does happen that something stops working all of a sudden. It is generally one muscle so it will not be a whole limb but the movement done by that muscle is suddenly gone. An example is a calf raise. It won't happen. Think of it like your wifi signal. You are surfing the net, then signal is lost and you can't do anything online no matter how hard you try or how long you wait for a page to load. This is what happens to a muscle in beginning ALS it has lost the signal from the nervous system that tells it to work


FMP

[always scared]

Early symptoms of ALS usually include muscle weakness or stiffness.

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/patient-caregiver-education/fact-sheets/amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-als-fact-sheet#:~:text=ALS%20belongs%20to%20a%20wider,to%20 muscles%20throughout%20the%20body.

[always scared]

in the last 3 years I've had 2 family friends die of als both women one was 55 the other was 60. With these odds it's not very rare. These women had no family history either

[always scared]

I know its pointless posting here no one really answers my post anymore. I guess I just hope someone can relate and give me hope and help me in the moment. I've just come to the conclusion that I'm going to die a horrible death ALS by far the very worst

[Fishmanpa]

in the last 3 years I've had 2 family friends die of als both women one was 55 the other was 60. With these odds it's not very rare. These women had no family history either

Sorry to hear that :( Well I guess you need to get to a neurologist STAT then. Let us know what they say

Concerning some hope? Look at your post history. Have you even been remotely close to your worst fears?

FMP

[always scared]

MY forearms feel so tight, crampy and weak. My hands feel like I'm going to drop something

[always scared]

another day and still the same. I really starting to get really scared. It cant be just anxiety