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Hi there, I am a doctor who first posted here( only once or twice) in 2012. I thought I would update you all on my BFS experience as a means to transmit reassurance. In October 2012, I started with eye twitch for two weeks, then a brief lip twitch, which set me on the Dr. google terror trip of...

Glad to hear you are nearly back to yourself anxious guy . yes this website is good, but i try to focus on the reassuring posts. i try not to read too much other stuff cuz that sends the anxiety flying. I am a doctor. Funnily enough i think doctors can either obsess or ignore their health. take...

yeah probably anxious guy, from what I have read, you get muscle death and nerve death first in ALS, then fasciculations. So a person diagnosed is never usually grand and its a fairly rapid progression to disability .

hey anxious guy, yeah all 20 presented with fasiculations but of the the group who also had weakness and neuropathy , one person had ALS. I take this to mean, from the abstract, that on examination these people had other abnormalities, where as the 70 % (presenting with what seems like...

Hi everyone! I had a virtually eye twitch free week...so weird ... because this day last week i was really bothered. The eye that drove me crazy is completely quiet.Just a few tiny twitches in the opposite eye lower lid today but yesterday was pretty stressful at work again.I am more convinced...

Very interesting post about FASCICS GlowGreen! OptimisticGuy-don't worry please! First off, the study used a series of twenty people who attended probably some specialist service.Hey, its no surprise someone would have actual serious pathology. Its like saying if one screened 20 consecutive...

Thanks guys for answering so promptly :D) -yes anxious guy you are so right-after a year of twitching I would be far more symptomatic if it was something other than bfs. The sad thing is that I am a medic, you would think I should know this! I guess logic goes out the window with health...

Hi everyone, advice and reassurance needed please! Okay, I haven't posted in nearly a year and my wonderful experience with twitching started over a year ago. First with an eyelid twitch, then a brief lip twitch, then a meeting with "dr. Google" (i.e. freak out time!) then body wide twitches. I...

Hi there I am a 37 yr old doctor and mom to three kids ages 2,3 and 5. I have experienced first hand the sheer terror and anxiety of twitches and DR. Google. For as long as I can remember, I experienced eye twitches when tired and calf twitches after exercise-but I never paid much notice to this...