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Just dropping by on my 2nd anniversary of this long BFS road. I started this chapter in my life with a small twitch. After that I explored the world of google and the journey began. I will say that this message board was both a blessing and a curse to me. It blessed me as I met many...

Robyn has a great chat room if you haven't visited it give it a go. Just another option to help wrap our minds around this crap that we are all dealing with

I have succesfully moved on from *** now I have MS or PD one or the other... I am freaking insane. On a side note I really wish I new how to post my pic by my user name :confused:

Wanted to take a minute and celebrate my one year anniversary. My twitches started in September and by October I was rather certain I was a dead man. There are a few people on this forum that literally saved my life. Sure the neuro said it was nothing sinister, but why listen to him, when...

With the number of hotties with new profile pics! No, seriously, going to be one year in a couple of weeks and that is a huge milestone in my mind. Not really sure why thats a milestone, but for me, it is. Glad the hot part of summer will be over soon, football is just around the corner...

Just a question about sleep aids. Everyone on here is down on them it seems. If I was getting little to no sleep for a long period of time and the doctor prescribed ambien to help me sleep, isn't that better than no sleep at all? I mean I understand the whole dependency thing but the no sleep...

My hands fasic constantly, palm, thumb, back of hand, forearm. I had not experienced a great deal of pain before. Now my fingers are very stiff and painful. This hand has been a hotspot going on 10 months now. Clean EMG, nerve conduction, MRI and various blood tests November 09. Various...

Is there anyone out there or is there any eveidence that suggests you get pulled muscles more often with BFS? I have been very athletic my entire life and only had a handfull of pulled muscles. Since BFS onset in September 2009 I have had three major pulls/tears. Calf, Groin and Hamstring...

My symptoms started 5 months ago with fasiculations in the palm of my right hand, below my index finger and in the fat part of my palm below my thumb. The thumb deal has progressed to the point that the fasiculations now are much more like jerks. The muscle will jerk and move my thumb as much...

As I said in a previous post tremors started in fat part of thumb (still there 24/7) and spread to other parts of my body quickly. MAJOR anxiety followed. 1st Nuero appt did a physical once over, benign. 2nd nuero last week w/ needle EMG, negative. He prescribed seratalin sp? and ambien. I...

Do any of you have the ability to make a muscle fasiculate? For instance I can put a load on my thigh muscles in a certain way and they will fasiculate ( while sitting and pushing forward, not standing) also, my fingers and the palm of my hand are aching today. As I had posted yesterday My...

I am new to all of this... Several times during the summer I had severe cramps in my right arm. Mid September started developing a fasiculation in the fat part of my thumb, in the palm of my hand. Went back to my nuerosurgeon who ordered an MRI which was clear( I had cervial fusion C5,6,7, in...

This board, literally, saved my life. I was convinced that I was dying...a slow and painful death. The truth was then, and is now... If you found your way to this board, you do NOT have a dreadful disease. To those that supported me during those times, thank you. To those of you new to this...