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    Friend Struggling with ALS Symptoms

    bump ---- anyone know what happened to CosmicVisitor?
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    A Relief After Hearing the Truth

    Great post! And I completely agree. The real enemy here isn't BFS, it is your interpretation of BFS. Once you stop worrying about the interpretation, the BFS fades away. There's only so much the human nervous system can take, and you yourself are generally the one doing it.
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    Tongue Twitching, Neck Pain & Facial Droop

    Ok so the past few days my tongue has been twitching. Its not nonstop - it just feels like the tip on the right side tenses up or clenches a bit then relaxes.This is the side of my tongue that is visibly smaller than the other side. I have neck pain on the front of that same side. Hurts when...
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    Right Tongue Twitching, Neck Pain

    Ok so the past few days my tongue has been twitching. Its not nonstop - it just feels like the tip on the right side tenses up or clenches a bit then relaxes.This is the side of my tongue that is visibly smaller than the other side. I have neck pain on the front of that same side. Hurts when...
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    Muscle Spasms: Causes and Symptoms

    OK so i've been mostly the same since all this crap started at the beginning of the year.But I still have been having what I would call "muscle spasms"I have read that its twitching and also read other things, but what I am feeling is as follows:A lot of times my movements are exaggerated - i go...
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    Fungal Infection & Muscle Twitching

    interesting. I'm highly allergic to mold and the symptoms coincided with moving into a new apartment. Also - I had eaten an entire log of real bluecheese during the week I started to feel weird.
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    Twitching After Exercise - Worried!

    OK so, I have not had as many twitches recently. thats a good thing i thinkHowever, after I stretch a muscle, or do something like flex my biceps or forearms really hard, the muscle will twitch a few times... like 2 - 3 quick twitches. This also happens with my jaw, neck and other muscles.I am...
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    Stress-Related Tingling in Feet

    just read this.awesome post.I had basically the same early-on experience with some extreme fatigue and panic attacks - i also thought I was dying of several other things including mad cow disease and a host of other super-rare disorders. I am surprised, however, that your doc said "it could be...
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    Chronic Issues: 4 Month Update

    Here's a new one related to my weird hand feelings:when i was in the bathroom after using the sink, I flicked the water off my hands into the sink, yet my hands felt sluggish almost like they were made of cement while i was doing this motion. I mean i COULD do it my hands just felt heavy and...
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    Chronic Issues: 4 Month Update

    OK all my info is on here somewhere but I'll summarize.Had lots of problems, chills, panic attacks, twitches, jerks, cramps, fatigue etc over the past 4 months. Specific problems were crampy hands/feet with weird feelings in my forearms/palms like I had worked out for hours but I had only been...
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    MRI Experience: Giggles and Twitches

    I thought you were going for an EMG too? mayeb not.
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    Crippling ALS Fears Resurface Again

    Hi, if you look back at the posts I had made when I first came here, I had a ton of non-specific symptoms including pretty bad myoclonic jerks. I was CONVINCED I had a brain tumor which was going to lead to seizures or something. Then after i kept googling I ended up with mad-cow disease. Wow...
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    Welcome Back! Sharing My CFS Recovery Story

    do all whey protein mixes have this? I used to supp whey protein, and I'm starting on it again.
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    Left Thumb Pain & Knee Pain

    1.) being alive for 4.5 years without progressing symptoms points away from ALS (you would probably be long gone by now if it was ALS)2.) sensory symptoms point away3.) weakness in ALS is not transient. Once you lose your thumb, its gone. no "good" days.Do you have actual atrophy? like are...
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    Weakness in Thumb and Twitches

    my left hand especially gets tired from things like using the keyboard. I realized that im holding my elbow up a little bit at times, and as a result, my left hand begins to tremble while im holding it over the keyboard. Also, after exerting it for a few minutes doing something, it starts to...
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    What is Weakness?

    OK, so as the thread title says... what really is weakness?I had gone to a neuro (i dont think hes a nm specialist) about a month ago. I looked up his info on the web and of course it tells me he gets a 1/5 for all the patient confidence and bedside manner etc. (although again there were only...
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    Anxiety and BFS: Help Needed

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    Twitching Biceps & Shoulder Blade: Help?

    my biceps have had twitchy days especially when i give them a reason to - like working out biceps in the gym.
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    Help! Left Foot Cramping

    my foot cramps all the time - has done so for as long as i can remember.is it something serious? who knows. but its been doin it for a while and others on this board have similar symptoms.
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    Mercury Fillings and Disease Risk

    wow, they DXed you with probable ALS after clean EMGs with the exception of some facial weakness? Did the Mercury actually cause denervation? that's insane! glad you got it all sorted out - many people would have crumbled under that pressure.
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