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    Normal Results: No ALS, BFS Yes

    Good luck Nancy!! Just remember...the calmer you are the less invasive the procedure will feel..You will be fine!!!
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    Normal Results: No ALS, BFS Yes

    So I went yesterday and she did the needles and the shocking stuff on my leg of complaint. She said since it was all completely normal there was no reason to do any other part of the body!!! YAYA!!!! Says no way ALS..Yes way BFS....and then I got sort of a suck it up speech..which is ok...but I...
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    Anxiety before EMG - Impact?

    Am I able to take a xanax tonight to sleep?
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    Anxiety before EMG - Impact?

    I have my EMG tomorrow and I am again all nervous and torked...Will my nervous feelings alter the EMG findings?
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    Shoulder Twitching While Sleeping

    Thanks guys...This helps a lot...I am a lot less on edge than I was before the clinical...Now I just want to do the EMG...I will have her do my shoulder and arm for good measure...I am telling myself that my anxiety is stressing out my bicep and shoulder as well..I have had the arm tightness off...
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    Shoulder Twitching While Sleeping

    My shoulder two nights ago...oddly the night I got the good clinical exam...it started to twitch so fast that I woke up to what sounded like a helicopter landing....So now if I am in the same position...when sleeping it starts up again....Has anyone had this? I want to have a nice Easter but...
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    Appointment Results: No ALS!

    Well I had my appointment today!! Nearly crawled out of my body by the time she took me back....This is the best part of the story " I had a fellowship for 10 years at SUNY where all I did was work with ALS patients... Never does it present with facs or twitches first." You don't have...
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    Had a beer- little better

    Had a beer which I never do...Trying not to take xanax the night before my appointment so it doesn't alter what she sees...Anyway, the tightness in my leg got better half way into the beer..Hopefully that is a good sign...I had a small twitch though...But just one since around 3:50...Now it is 6:25
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    Twitching for 9-10 Months

    Thank you so much! for the neuro info you posted...I am so nervous...I have a meeting with my neuro tomorrow..I have been doing everything from measuring my squat fatigue to standing on one leg on my tiptoe and seeing how long I can do it (very hard)..I started by having a rolling twitch under...
  10. J

    Is it considered localized

    Is it considered localized if it moved from knee cap to upper thigh? It is in the same leg so that is why I am worried..I heard localized is more ominous. The worrier
  11. J

    Exploring Other Neurological Conditions

    I have restless leg and essential tremors...I think my grandmother had restless legs..
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    Knee Cap Twitching for Three Weeks

    I am going to keep reading your posts over and over again....Do we think the facs before weakness in 6% of ALS is a coincidence sort of thing...? I hope so...I felt better eliminating that idea with the lack of wasting and weakness...Though I will say I have more trouble jumping up a step on my...
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    Knee Cap Twitching for Three Weeks

    Thank you so much...Have you ever noticed them ceasing with xanax...Is it possible to have them while having xanax?
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    Knee Cap Twitching for Three Weeks

    About three weeks ago after I had done some squats in the morning I started having a rolling twitch around my knee cap. I am a 35 year old female with a beautiful family and scared to death because it really hasn't stopped for a day since...it just moved to more on my thigh...without rolling on...
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