Re: My ALS fears
The symptoms that you describe sound nothing like ALS.
Clinical weakness, as it pertains to ALS, is a failure of something. Not a feeling of weakness/tiredness. It's actually not being physically capable of doing something. For example, one morning, you were able to lift the kettle to fill it up at the tap. The next, you cannot do that no matter how hard you try, and you can never do it again.
Simply feeling weakness in one part of your body, but still being able to carry out every day tasks does not remotely signify ALS.
It sounds to me like you're focusing far too much on this. Ask yourself one thing-would a person without anxiety be putting this much thought into things? Would they, for example, examine areas of their body for differences? Probably not. Your aim is to get to that point.
No one's body is 100% symmetrical. Some people have one leg longer than the other. One foot slightly bigger or broader. Even our faces have elements of asymmetry. This is normal. And not remotely a signifier of something being terribly amiss.
At your next doctor's appointment, discuss your anxiety over your fears of ALS. That should be the focus because no one can live life like this. Believe it or not, anxiety can cause a lot of what you describe. It can cause feelings of weakness/tiredness, make you super aware of your body and how every motion feels so that they feel awkward or "off," cause twitches and makes you hyper-aware of things you didn't even think about before but were there the whole time.
ALS is incredibly rare. It's so rare it's not even worth worrying about. And the reality is, you're not qualified to even suggest that anything you're experiencing is ALS because only trained professionals, through extensive testing, are qualified to do that. Take heart that you pass your strength tests and that is the biggest indicator ever that you do not need to worry about ALS.
Take care.
Last edited by CleverLittleViper; 30-09-17 at 21:57.
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