Search results

I'm going on 16 months strong with whatever the hell this syndrome is. I still twitch all over particularly the calves but most of the time, I don't notice them anymore. Doctors can't explain it, but they seem unconcerned given that no other telling abnormalities are present.After weeks of...

It went away after three hours. Screw you, BFS.

My right calf has been experiencing a rhythmic, pulsating, "popping" twitch for the last hour. It won't stop!! I can feel it through my pants leg. These have been coming and going over the last couple days but they haven't lasted this long. I've been a BFS'er for 9+ months but it has been...

My doctors tell me this is all "par for the course" in a health-anxiety infested person. 12Drifter12s are common in a LOT of people. In fact, they are the leading reason people visit the optometrist. It's sometimes called "Blue Sky Phenomenon"--for some reason, a person decides to stare at the...

Do any of you experience these? I have read that paresthesias are a part of BFS, but facial paresthesias are also related to MS. I had a clean neurological exam in April--the neurologist refused to order an EMG after a thorough physical examination. Fasciculations developed in early February...

My twitches are never ending, but certain paresthesias and sensations, mainly my face and legs, come and go every few weeks or so. They'll be around for a couple weeks, and then go away, and then come back several weeks later. Is this something you have observed in your BFS? The sensations have...

It's been a week now and my calves and everything else imaginable are still fasciculating, but I'm really doing a lot better. There was never a phone call back from the office, so I guess the CPK blood test was normal. It was very beneficial to my sanity to hear a trained neurologist say the...

Ugh, wouldn't you know it. The same day I visit the neurologist, I start seeing a different kind of twitching. I've just noticed it a couple times tonight. The best way I can describe it is a "machine-gun" twitch. It's like 20 twitches at the same location in my calf--like a "rapid fire" series...

After three months of twitching in my calves, arms, and eyelids, and worrying myself to death about MS, ALS, and you name it, I finally visited a neurologist. He checked my reflexes, strength, coordination, and sensory perception. All were perfectly normal. He checked out the fasciculations. He...

I have read in a Neurology textbook that only about 6.7% of patients diagnosed with ALS presented with fasciculations as their primary symptom.

I posted in the Support Group forum earlier, but I thought more background and specifics were necessary.I began to get sick on this past New Years Eve. It was fairly general: cough, sneezing, sore throat, malaise, head pressure, chest congestion, etc. It lasted for about 2.5 weeks before it was...

Is it more common for the twitching to cease at some point? Or is it more common for them to never, ever go away? I can't imagine having to deal with these leg twitches for the rest of my life, even if they are benign. :crying:

That's nice to know! I've been contemplating a similar visit to a neurologist but I have a feeling it would end the same way. :unsure:

When your muscles are bouncing, popping, and firing around, there's no doubt fatigue can be a symptom. On top of that, anxiety floods your bloodstream with stress hormones while creating a conscious/subconscious muscle tension only serving to exacerbate the generalized fatigue you are feeling...

Doctor says I have to rein in my thoughts and take it easy for a little while. He says the difference between me and most people with these diseases is that they don't find themselves searching on the internet worrying and fretting constantly--it just happens to them. He says that a mind in...

I took Lexapro (10mg) for only two days, and it caused me to itch and tingle all over and have heat-like sensations in my feet, so I quit taking it. It gave me some insomnia also. The advantage of SSRIs (like Lexapro) is that they are able to be taken for much longer time periods than...

Can someone explain the difference between a muscle spasm versus a muscle fasciculation? I cannot find a single source on the internet that clearly outlines the differences between the two. I've been twitching bilaterally in my calves for nine weeks now and this morning, I was having very...

Thank you for all these responses. I have read over each of them and have been very encouraged. Today is a good day.Again, thank you all.

I started experiencing calf twitches/fasciculations around seven weeks ago and when I first noticed them, I made the foolish mistake of typing "muscle twitches" into Google. Seriously, people, what a mistake.I'm sure you know what "muscle twitches" brought up on Google. Immediate panic set in. I...