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If you have read the old posts, you know that I have been experiencing the exact same thing for over a year. In fact the pins and needles came on before the twitches. I did drastically reduce my caffeine intake. That reduced the symptoms by about 50% I would say, but they still occurr...

Your wait is normal in Canada-in fact, compared to some provinces it is downright expeditious. Your health care is far from "free"-in many ways.

I may be the only person on this board older than you are (53). It is especially frightening, I know, when one gets these symptoms at our age because we are actually at a more realistic age to get some of these diseases than the younger people. I have experienced many of your symptoms. I get...

Classic case of BFS, I think. Your symptoms mimic mine almost exactly. It may just take time for you to overcome your fears. It took me a couple of months which included nerve conduction studies, EMG, and numerous blood tests. I twitch just as much as before, but I hardly think about it...

If you read the old posts you will see that many have the same symptoms you do. I have the calf and foot fasics and the the face twitching. As I have said, I had nearly every test the neuro could think of and he says BFS. I also had elevated CPK and was taking Lipitor. I quit for 6 months...

I get them in my calves. I will think I am having no twitches and then look at my calves and they will have very fine surface ripples.

That's the funny part of this syndrome. As you may have noticed, some of us were on the Atkins diet for several months before the BFS appeared. I never ate more then 30 grams of carbs a day for over three months until I noticed the twitching. I actually thought the absence of carbs might have...

I had all the same tests you did and also had slightly high CPK. The neuro (who seems very competent to me and spoke extensively about BFS during my first visit) mentioned a muscle biopsy but said he didn't think it warrented unless I began experiencing weakness or other new symptoms. Said he...

Thanks everyone!!! It is a real help. I am deployed right now so any encourgement about these *beep* symptoms is welcomed!!! :D)

Ah, Stratotankers. I heard the retrofit for the R was a huge improvement over the A model (shows you how old I am). I also heard somewhere that you can refuel NATO planes with some new type of refueling pods? Getting off topic, I guess. Thanks again for your service. Hope Saudi wasn't too...

Don't take this wrong. I'm not trying to be mean or tactless but in my humble opinion-ONLY in California (no offense Alonzo). What about the pollution-heavy metals, parasites etc. in raw fish? Reasonable amounts of lean meat are not only harmless but important in any diet. If you want to...

Well actually I agree with you Alive about some of those posts and I understand your gripe. I just think that there is no reason to be scared by most of this stuff. See Joe's post on the other thread about this link. Just ignore the posts you think might scare you or that bother you. There...

I was doing some research and I found an interesting bit of information I had never seen. Studies have been done (and are ongoing) showing that the incidence of ALS in the military population of Gulf War veterans is over twice that of the regular military population. Don't get nervous if you...

Actually, I have dealt with a lot of people exactly like your brother and I always found that they respected candor more than pussyfooting around- but that is neither here nor there. I get a little short sometimes. Like you I suspect, I don't really much care what other people think, although...

If someone came on here and said he was an accountant but wasn't, I wouldn't care. If someone came on here and said he was a librarian but wasn't, I wouldn't care. If someone came on here and said he was neurologist and there was no reason to doubt that statement, I wouldn't care. But if...

Okay guys, when I post this keep in mine I work with a doc that does emg's on Tuesdays, tommorrow I will ask again but I am almost positive this is how it goes. There are two types of fascic random and contraction, the random ones fire in a muscle that is relaxed, they can be anywhere at...

I also have had many of the same symptoms you mention (other than the bladder problem). I have had numerous tests-all normal so far. Probably just part of the BFS.

I think our twitches seem worse because we notice them-the old hypersensitivity to our own bodies. I know in my case that it was not anxiety or worry or hypochondira that brought on the twitches. I was at one of the most contented points in my life except for a few medical problems my wife...

I too was on the Atkins diet when twitching started, but I really think it was just a fluke. I did however think it was related in the beginning and stopped the diet. After stopping, my symptoms got worse. I think that may be because i began eating lots of sugar that i wasn't on the diet and...

As I have been gone for a few month's, I went back and read carolmaries' post which caused such a furor. It is an example of what can happen when too much credence is placed on one internet message. This board is filled with great, helpful, credible people. It also (like any message board)...