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so i called- and the nurse told me the neuro has not looked at them but the brain seemed fine and the spine showed a slight disc bulge on c-4 and 5 or something. doesn't sound like a big deal. however, she said that it states i need a few more scans (though i think that is b/c the machine...

hello. i had a terrible MRI on Wednesday. The machine broke after my shot halfway thru and I had to go to another machine (and a 2nd shot). The whole thing took over 3 hours. My 2nd neuro thinks MS is possible, so I'm a little nervous about this and not hearing back from him in 5 days now...

These muscle twitchvibrations are quite long in duration. They can start and go on for about 20-40 sec each time

yeah, i probably don't have it, but i've been a wreck since my 2nd neuro exam tuesday. from what i've found out though, 2 beats of clonus can be quite normal as are brisk/hyper reflexes. just looking for things to make me feel better about my situation. congrats on your 500th post. you've...

instead of searching for reasons I have ALS now, I decided to convince myself (and perhaps some others here) that our twitching is not congruent to ALS twitching. one good sign is facial twitching. i've read of people saying that facial twitching (besides the tongue) is rare in ALS and i came...

thanks for the responses everyone. my neuro at the CC just called me back because of my concerns. he told me again that i don't have ALS and he didn't think my "brisk reflexes" and 2 beats of clonus were pathological. so he didn't recommend any testing. i suppose that different neuros can...

well.... just got back from my second neuro exam. my first at the cleveland clinic i had a normanl phy. exam. i had a normal one at the ER last week and a normal one in Greece 2 months ago. so i went again today just for "piece of mind" and finally had an "abnormal" exam. the doctor said...

Steve, I too have the ear tapping... to me it is more like morris code or the tapping of wine glasses at a wedding reception. I only have it in my left ear. This has been going on for 9 months now.... my reg twitching started 1 yr & 4 months ago. I had 2 CT scans, bloodwork, 2 ENT appts. Nobody...

Hello. My name is Steve (22) and you've heard from me before. Twitcher of 3 months. Common myoclonic jerks and daytime jerking. I've pretty much gotten over my ALS fears, but with a few new symptoms I'm now onto a new obsession: Brain Tumor. Anyway, before my neuro appt 2 wks ago the vision...

hello again all. just got back from my first neuro exam at the cleveland clinic. doc doesn't think the twitching/jerking is due to a neuro problem. he did the basic exam in 5-10 minutes and talked to me for a while. he didn't think tests were warranted at this time and to call back if new...

Steve, what I've read about fascics in ALS and BFS is totally against what you wrote. In my opinion BFS fascics tend to migrate and ALS fascics are usually in one and the same spots for long long time (untill the muscle is dead and out of use). Benign fascics occur in many places and can...

Get an appointment with a good neuro. I am one of the few people on this board who is tually of the right age to perhaps have ALS and my twitches have continued unabated for quite a while. I went to a neuro and got the whole battery-nerve conduction, EMG, Thyroid, various enzymes, Lyme, MRI...

hello. my name is steve- 22 years old - healthy like you all and a new twitcher of 2 months. mine started after a two week fever/sore throat bout in the middle of a stressful hot summer in Crete working with some other urban plannig students. it began with scary body jolts and jerks as i fell...