NervousnessNoMore
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So I am making my annual, yep I am still here and I am fine. One of the things that bothered me early on was that you would read peoples stories and the would mysteriously disappear. I now know that is because they moved on with their life. So I find it important to check in and say I am alive and kicking (well no kicking, but I will get to that in a second). Honestly not much has changed, although I would would say that I don't twitch as much as a I used to. It has calmed pretty considerably. I also pay little to no attention to it anymore. It's only bothersome when it's a finger or in my face because it's just annoying. Not scary at all anymore. People often ask what the "cure" for BFS is. the only cure I know of is get away from the internet. Stop thinking about it. You have to choose to move on with your life, and not focus on it. Yes we all have bodywide twitching, hot spots, some (like me) get cramps. Bottom line is, we choose how we live our life. We CHOOSE to live in fear. Well I chose to leave that all behind. Now all that being said I did just experience TRUE atrophy. I had surgery on my achilles tendon. I was in a cast for 6 weeks, and a boot for another 5. I lost 5 inches of my calf. Yes that is 5 inches. Within 1.5 months I am back to it only being 1 inch smaller. I experience "clinical" weakness. I could barely move my foot. now that I know what that feels like. It is NOTHING like what we all though was weakness. When they say you can't even push the gas pedal, they are not exagerating. So get up tomorrow, smile, decide that this is the day that you take back your life. STOP LIVING IN FEAR! and move on. It won't happen over night, but over time you will forget about the twitching. It will no longer be important to you. Take care and God Bless!Donps. If you want my story just go back and read my older posts.
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