Strange occurence in bank. ALS?

[nivekc251]

You dont have any muscles in your fingers. Calm down shit happens bro. The more you focus on it the more shaky and twitchy it's going to seem. Now if you couldnt lift your arm to grab the pencil then you should worry, but a brief period of clumsiness is nothing to worry about. Trust me you are ok. Now if you couldn't hold a pencil at all when you got home then yea go see a doc .

[crystal17]

Has carpal tunnel ever been fatal?

ISB

I really hope not - I've had it for about 7 years now and still here Can't hold an umbrella though!

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Why not give that middle finger to your irrational fear and move on?

Positive thoughts

This actually really made me laugh starting to realise that laughing at our anxiety helps diffuse it A LOT.

[Dave1]

Has carpal tunnel ever been fatal?

Well it can develop into pneumonia. (If you can't hold an umbrella).

[Hancock]

LOVE how a stressed out/anxious mind affects a body. Does all kinds of crap. Then the mind adds another twist and outright creates physical symptoms.

I know that you really fear this and my post will not make a bit of difference , but you are not describing ALS no matter what your anxiety is telling you..

By the way--my son's college friend's dad was dx'd with ALS about 10 months ago. Doc's knew right away something was wrong.

If you refuse to listen to anyone, at least listen to this woman. She has saved more people's sanity than can be counted over at anxietyzone. I'm so glad you're still around sixpack.

[Capercrohnj]

Has carpal tunnel ever been fatal?

ISB

Haha no, I meant it as opposed to ALS. You never see people having anxiety over carpal or cubital tunnel which both cause numbness, pain and hand/arm weakness

[Josh1234]

The difference, of course, is when ALS patients all of a sudden can't do something, they can NEVER do it again. Not on the second, third, or one hundredth try. You are fine. Call a therapist.

[Catherine S]

The best reasoning I've seen so farJosh. I hope the OP takes it on board.

ISB

[darkside4k]

Yes, I've read that before as well Josh and that does give me some comfort.

[ServerError]

It should give you more than "some comfort". You don't have ALS. You had a brief moment of clumsiness and your mind ran away with it.

[axolotl]

I'm not sure another voice in this discussion is going to do any help whatsoever, but:

1. You've not described anything that even sounds like ALS. It's not an "intermittent fault"; your hand would just stop working and not recover.

2. You've got that selective anxiety thing we've all had where you're doing "research" online that involves cherry picking the bits that confirm your anxiety, but ignoring all the rational things on the same pages that clearly state you're not experiencing the symptoms of the disease you're scared of.

3. I briefly flirted with ALS fear when having some neuro symptoms (which didn't even remotely resemble ALS really), but soon learnt that it's such a rare disease that you may as well lay awake at night worrying where the best place to invest your lottery winnings is.