Hey all.
To start, I'm a 23 year old dude from America. A couple of months ago I noticed that my left leg twitches pretty frequently. Toes, calf, ankle, thigh, glute, the whole shebang. I've always been a twitchy guy, since I was like 16 (had an ALS scare then too, haha), but I remember it being much more widespread. So of course those anxious thoughts crept into my mind. "What if this time it's real?", etc. So I decided to take a cursory look at my feet, and to my horror, my entire left foot has less muscle than the right. Toes have less, foot has less, ankle has less. This is what really sent me down the whole, because I was convinced it was atrophy. So then the twitches go wild, but still confined to my left leg. On top of this, my grandfather died of ALS. We're 99% sure it was a sporadic case, as he's the only one in the 200 years of family death records that I could find that died of ALS, but there's always that chance that it was familial. This obviously makes it harder for me to shake the fear. It's been a couple of months now, and my foot still looks the same, so I'm less convinced that it's atrophy than I was, but it's still concerning. I have a neurologist appointment on July 14th, that my GP didn't even want to refer me to but I asked specifically for. In good news, I just got prescribed Lexapro for anxiety so hopefully that will help a bit with this. So yeah, has anyone else had localized twitching? Or noticed bodily asymmetry that they thought was atrophy? Any similar stories would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all!