Recent content by KnoopyMapcase

I'm not sure if I know the answer for certain, but I can say that from my own experience it seems to be the case. I saw a description of someone with twitches in their legs, and looked at my own out of curiosity. Sure enough...popcorn twitches in my calves and feet that have been going on now...

Hello to all. I am approaching my fourth year of twitching, and although my calves twitch non-stop I don't even notice it anymore, and have been mostly anxiety free for the past few years since I noticed that although the twitching didn't stop, I wasn't getting weaker or demonstrating other...

Sometimes I think we all need to video our twitches and post them here - it would eliminate that whole "I know he says that his calf twitches 24/7, but he can't REALLY mean that it twitches as visibly or frequently as mine" thing we all seem to do. It's just so hard to believe that anyone else...

Great job of pointing out how silly the things we do to ourselves are in the name of feeling "better." Why do self tests never look this silly at 3am when I can't sleep and am hopping across the living room floor, trying desparately not to wake my wife up? -Robbie

Severe lower back pain due to compressed disc in late 2000, so bad that I was in bed for a month and went to the Chiro every other day. The Chiro asked me then from looking at my X-ray if I had been in a car accident about ten years prior, which I had - one that made my "tailbone" sore for a...

Hi, I made the mistake of going of *** site where I found that contrary to the beliefs that there is no pain in this illness, there are people who experience significant muscle fatigue/pain or joint pains etc... and some even before their diagnosis (?). Does anyone here have joint pains -...

I'm sorry to hear you're having a bad day/night. Based on what everyone here has to say, the whole comparing muscles thing is bad news. While I haven't gotten caught up in it so much, there was a day when I thought one of my biceps was larger than the other. When I checked it later in the...

I, like many others here, obsess over ALS from time to time. Believe me, I'm not judging anyone for this. At the same time, I find it interesting that with as many negative, sensational posts as I've seen regarding ALS in the past few days, no one (unless it was posted and I didn't see it)...

I, like some others on this board, have pretty much constant twitching in my feet and calves. Somtimes I will not have any twitches in other locations for weeks, but the feet and calves are pretty consistent. Unfortunately, I'm having a bit of a bad day with anxiety after a few good months (7...

Thanks to both of you for clarifying. I can still do the toe/heel walks perfectly after four months, so for the most part I'm actually starting to feel better. Every once in a while there will be one of those days though...thanks again for helping me get through it. -Robbie

I'm a huge Marx Brothers fan, as I'm assuming you are since you caught that pretty obscure reference! Have you seen the Woody Allen movie (for some reason I can't remember which one it is, but I think it was Crimes and Misdemeanors) where he's in an anhedonic state he can't get out of until he...

Thanks to both of you for your encouragement. This has worked for me pretty well, so I'm almost afraid to mess with it too much. I hit my three month mark this week, which for some reason was the point I decided I wasn't going to worry anymore when this first started. Actually, I have had a...

Just curious how many others out there are convinced they have BFS based on the symptoms they're experiencing (or NOT experiencing, in the case of weakness) but have not visited a doctor, at least not about your symptoms? I know that generally speaking it is always best to go to a doctor with...

Hi, Kahill. Having an upset stomach and shortness of breath are both signs of anxiety, which I'm sure is all you're experiencing. Try not to panic, and if possible, relax. Speaking from my own struggles I can say with assurance that the sooner you are able to calm down, the better everything...

Great discussion! One thing that's always interested me about the Adam and Eve story - if they were forbidden from eating the fruit from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, how could they be held accountable for the crime when before they ate the fruit they didn't know the difference...