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Ginny, One more thing. Suze mentioned the piriformis muscle... Piriformis syndrome can definitely cause all kinds of symptoms in one leg, AND it is especially common in runners!!! I'm not a runner anymore but have suspected that as the cause of my leg pain for a while. Ursula

Hi, Ginny. I just wanted to let you know that I too have leg pain that rarely subsides. My upper hamstrings (right under my rear) ache and feel tight all the time for months now. I find that after standing for a long time, I feel as though my legs are seizing up on me. So far I've had two clean...

Has anyone here had a tongue twitch last off and on for several days in a row? My tongue has been twitching in the same spot since Friday, and I'm so freaked out. Thanks, Ursula

Hi, everyone. I just thought I'd reach out for some support. I'm having a really bad few days and find myself tempted to start the bad kind of Internet research... As I've mentioned before on here, I started widespread twitching 9 months ago. Since then, the twitching has gotten worse with...

Carilynn, Just know that you are not alone. There are many of us on this site that are moms also. I have two girls, 6 and 8. One thing about being a parent is that it just cracks our hearts wide open and makes us that much more vulnerable to our fears. I have been in the same situation as you...

Dave, I love that you saved that! I find myself examining everyone's tongue now whenever they are talking to me. (The indignity of it all!) Ursula

Mel, My neuro didn't request the appointment. I did. At my last appointment in February, he did a very thorough exam and an EMG of my right side limbs and a couple of spots on my lower back. He was clear that there was "absolutely no evidence of ALS." My symptoms have gotten worse over the past...

Mel, did you mention that you also have a scallped tongue? I do, and it freaks me out a bit. However I have noticed lately (in my OCD observations) that lots of other people do as well. Ursula

Hi, Mel. I definitely have tongue twitching, as well as twitching inside of my throat. I have twitching all over my body -- a lot in the upper arms and buttocks. I started twitching nine months ago, but it has definitely gotten worse. I've had two clean EMGs but am scheduled to go back for...

Hi, Amanda. I've definitely had the leg pain. It's been bothering me all weekend and into today. I wake up in the morning, and I can feel the pain from just under my rear all the way into my feet. My arms were both burning this morning, as well. I've been trying to do yoga to help, but right...

Krissy, You can drive yourself crazy with muscle testing. (I certainly have.) I have also felt like one of my legs was weaker than the other and that the calf muscle on the "weaker" leg was different looking than the other leg. My EMG showed nothing to wrong. If you can stand on your toes for...

SSRIs can definitely cause a lot of these symptoms. I was just talking with my psychiatrist about this the other day. He was saying that the never know where patients will sit on the bell curve of side-effects when it comes to these drugs. I myself had very strong reactions to Prozac: lost 20...

Thanks so much for your explanation. My EMG was conducted by the head of Physical Medicine and EMGs for UC Davis, so I guess I need to just trust then that, like you said, something would have shown up. I've just been so hung up on whether or not he got an "affected" area, as I didn't twitch at...