Recent content by hCapitalize

Well if beta blockers are good for migraines, they have done nothing to suppress my auras. The visual snow is the same as ever and I have experienced another types of aura since starting. Mind you my migraine experience is not typical anyway because I only get the auras, they don't develop into...

Well I think each of us builds our own pseudo scientific theries as to the origin of our twitches.I don't think my notions are unique to me, in terms of considering finely tuned nerves with the "gain turned up" only yesterday the ENT Dr described my tinnitus in those terms, he said that with...

For all the old timers who remember me, I have not dropped off the edge of the earth yet.I was rushed into hospital recently with a suspected heart attack, that turned out to be a false alarm. I am now on beta blockers.It occurs to me this is a good opportunity to see if the beta blocker...

As Gracely says. Depends what you mean by good, I have after a number of years gone back to the hospital for further NCV tests and it's not really good, because it looks like my right hand definatly has a resurgence of Carpal Tunnel. It is only good if I am on a fairly fast track to having it...

Here you go, I have not posted for some years on this forum but today I was back at the hospital having NCV tests for Carpal Tunnel.I have had so many problems with my right arm lately that is very difficult to sort out what is due to what as Carpal tunnel and other things notwithstanding as I...

TOS is not really any different to any other kind of nerve compression, wherever the nerves are compressed there will be damage and what follows it. I get chest pains as well, sometimes they are really severe.

It is a mere 7 and half years since I found this forum at the height of despair and diagnosis by Google. One thing I did learn to stop doing long ago and I am the better for it, is all the relentless self checking and monitoring, sticking my tongue out in front of the mirror, looking for...

I know. This Ice bucket challenge guff has brought it all back to me, I have not been to this forum for many a year but I have somehow drifted back here, more out of a sense of depression than anxiety now.

I have atrophy in my left hand, I have been feeling a bit depressed about it lately because I was clearing some brambles and undergrowth on my allotment, swinging a machete around, and I transferred it to the left hand to reach something more convenient for that side and I could barely keep hold...

Aha I have left hand atrophy too. It is annoying to say the least, and it is both sides of the hand, it comes from multiple nerve compressions, I have had the elbow and wrist operated on, but I also have a problem in the C spine, you bet I do, it is very painful at times. It does sometimes cause...

Nothing to be sorry about, this forum exists for support and reassurance. I have been through that long journey myself, I only drop in here very occasionaly now when I am alerted to a late reply to a long past post.When I was at he height of my anxieties it was a very dark period indeed, I had...

Well to begin with don't freak out before the tests, freak out after the results. The whole point of the tests surely is to discover what the problem is.We get hotspots, sometimes it will be just one muscle that is twitching day in, day out for months, sometimes it is a whole lot of them. It...

Normal for people on this forum anyway :)Just wait till your tongue starts twitching, then the panic really goes through the roof, thing is that's normal too around here, any kind of twitching is. I have been through it all, EMG's NCV's MRI's several of them, it's what we do unfortunately.

Long time no post.I have atrophy in my left hand, no I am not just saying that, it is clinically verified, and do you know what? It is not getting any better. It is a right nuisance when I am peeling vegetables as it my grip that is the problem as well as diminished feeling. It also does other...

Nine years and still alive, who'd a thunk it :)Surprise surprise so am I, though the twitching is still there on and off, my right biceps were having a good go yesterday evening when I was playing the flute. Playing the flute you may ask? When I thought I'd be pushing up daisies well before now...