Recent content by taylormacmahon

I have the quivering feeling in jaw (shivering like feeling) when I wake up in the morning and sometimes just as I fall asleep. It came on w/ the twitching ~1 1/2 years ago. I have explained it to the neurologist as a symptom (he shrugged and rolled his eyes) and have done many web searches on...

Tonight I was watching a movie, and my arches were cramping (they always do that in certain positions, like pointing), so I flexed my left foot and when I released it, my foot went wild with jerking. It was very strange, like a string was attached to my foot and someone was tugging on it. It was...

Get cramping in the arches of my feet, sometimes in the calfs. Have left foot stifness especially in morning and has been diagnosed as plantar fascitus. No worries. Try quinnine. Tim

For what its worth here is a list of my symptoms that I relate to BFS, though at some point in time I think anything unusual is related: Started out as twitch between thumb and index finger very noticable for months. Twitch switched to other thumb months later after first disappeared Eye lid...

Been there. Saw a Therapist referred by my neurologist. Excercise every day. Tap my fingers, Walk on my heels/toe, run 5 miles, do 50 pushups, 75 leg lifts for each leg and have had twitching in calves and all over since Sept 03, and in hand and eye lid since 01. More I read the worse it got...

On the issue of a shrink (who was referred by my neurologist) as I told _BoyyDavo_Man in a private message yesterday -I was seeing a "stress counselor" of some notoriety(ie TV/radio) and after several visits he told me to look at my twitches every day, give them a name, and talk to them. So I...

The studies are discussed in detail between the members here over the last 2 years. The hallmark study was done at the Mayo Clinic which found fasciculations w/ clean emg means no chance of ALS. A second study out of either Canada or England found a 6.7% incidence in the development of ALS w/...

Again, thanks for the words of encouragement. The mind works in mysterious ways even in the face of hard cold facts. I guess my angst was/is increased when I read the back and forth comments comparing the Mayo study to the Canadian/English study (6.7% w/ initial fasiculations only, developed...

Dad died of ALS in late 80's w/in 16 months of diagnosis. Fear remained in back of my mind. 3 years ago started to get thumb twitch that lasted 3 monthe and then switched to other hand. June 03 severe eye twitch that started my constant dwell on ALS. Saw family doctor (Sep 03) who sent me to a...