Left Knee Clicking and Numbness

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my dearit is completely good and healty hot to have toes moving on babinsky reflex. it is even ok to have them moving a bit.and please do not waste your time on self test for reflexes which you anyway can not exert properly and can not properly evaluate your own response. let the experienced person do that.
 
My knee also clicks, and my orthopedist says I have something called "Runner's Knee." It's irritation of the cartilage under the kneecap. If it's any consolation, my left leg also felt weird for months, strangely stiff, and my left foot didn't seem to be hitting the ground right. It eventually went away. Don't panic. If anything were seriously wrong, your neurologist would have picked it up at your last app't.
 
Thanks I have normal reflexes according to the GP and doctor I saw today so I just have to keep reminding myself of this. Surely there would be something showing if there was a problem even though my toe is tingling?
 
I had tingling, too. Lots of people have. Did you read my previous posts? I started with tingling, then twitching, then tremors, back to twitching now. All of this began back in March, and I'm fine. I'm quite sure you are, too. BFS may bring up tons of new symptoms, but from what I've heard, it doesn't turn into anything sinister. Remember how good you felt recently? I believe you were on holiday with relatives? Progressive conditions don't wax and wane. I have days when my arm bothers me, other days I hardly notice it. You seem to have good days and bad days, too. There hasn't been a real progression to the point where you can't walk, right? Rest easy. I'm sure your visit to the neurologist will reassure you.
 
My 2 centsimpossible to test your own reflexes. impossible waste of timeyou can hear me a few blocks away, everything clicks and has for years. you are hyper aware and vigilant of everything in your body. I don't have arthritis or anything, maybe a bit misaligned, but this clicking is not a fatal disease or part of one.
 
hi english,im sorry to hear your so down..i understand how you feel.just wanted to let you know i have ridiculous clicky joints,have had for years! especially my left knee,if you look back on my posts you wil see my left leg has been bothering me for weeks,achy,twitching and stiff.but somedays i dont notice it at all. ..like when im busy!before this it was my arm that felt funny..and from the advice ive got from this site is anything nasty dosent have good and bad days :confused: i still worry too but im doing better recently..you will be fine take care x
 
Thanks everyoneI suppose what's scared me is the fact that my fourth toe has been twanging and tingling for over 5 days when I walk on it. I know all the docs and the physio say nothing to worry about but I'm being so negative and thinking this is the start of you know what. That my nerve is impinged because I have damage to a motor neurone caused by this dreaded disease. If I was not twitching I'd not be worried.I have not been like this for ages but this is the first real symptom I've had in an extremity and it's terrifying me. It happens to people's thumbs so why not their toe? I'm sorry to be a pain on this forum but I need to be somewhere right now!
 
EnlgishBirder, no need to apologize for "being a pain." This is what the "support group" is all about. It is a great place to come for a "REALITY CHECK." It seems we can all use that from time to time when our fears get the best of us. My twitching has certainly made me analyze every sensation more carefully. The joint clicks I used to notice come and go (almost always still there) and not give a second thought is what I hope happens to the twitches. That they become background noise. I only notice my cracking when I am trying to be very, very quiet to sneak up or in or not wake someone. I suspect I may have twitched on occasion before and barely given it a thought, but once I had the one in the belly PLUS google is what was so frightening - and creates the fear to notice every tiny involuntary movement now. Whether the twitches were there before or not I cannot be certain. Only need to move forward from here now.
 
This post scares the crap out of me my left side has been tingling now for four days. I have never read of ALS starting as tingling where did you read this?
 
Tingling, which is paresthesia, is not how ALS presents. Many a neuro will say that such symptoms tend to point AWAY from ALS and towards MS, nerve impingement due to injury, autoimmune diseases, etc. So let's not bring any misinformation here and share any links to where she got that story, because it is atypical and therefore would only cause undue worry. How do we know that the ALS patient didn't have paresthesia and ALS, just as someone can have both cancer and diabetes with different symptoms that had nothing to do with each other?Let's just try our best to SUPPORT each other with FACTS and not stir up any fear please.
 
Violetmom I'm sorry if I've scared you. There's so much crap on the Internet and I've been very worked up lately. Please don't worry.I went to my neuro again today. He says that my tingling is most likely trauma and it's definitely not neurological. I mentioned I get other tingling and the twitching still there and he says it's anxiety.This chap is a UK motor neurone disease expert and I asked him to do my reflexes and tests and he only did it to oblige me. He basically said he would know from the moment I walked in the door if there was a problem. I also asked him about why my tongue feels this and I trip my words and he said all heightened by my anxious state. Don't get me wrong either he's a nice chap and not condescending and I know if he saw something odd he'd say. He says als just does not start in this way and the fact that I've been twitching so long and there's been no weakness is proof I'm fine.I get tingling other than caused by trauma. I've been very anxious lately for various reasons and I'm sorry if you read this and got scared.
 

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