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    Seeking Advice: 3 Yr BFS Recovery

    Someone else acually just posted about swollen lymph nodes in the support group forum. I find it very ironic that we are all getting this at the same time.
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    Seeking Advice: 3 Yr BFS Recovery

    Wow, BFS Burger... I've been doing great for months, just when I got comfortable, (slacked on diet/workouts/sleep) everything you've described has happened to me. Random pains in my body, twitching has returned, and most of all swollen glands. I have them in my armpits, and throat. They are...
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    Trouble Smiling: Help with Quaking Muscles

    My tremors are most noticeable in my face and in my hands... like everything else... I have good days and bad days.
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    Help: New Twitches & Atrophy

    Guys, My twitches have been bad again lately. I noticed that my right hand along the pinky side is showing real symptoms of atrophy. I think it could be due to an ulnar nerve entrapment but everyone knows what happenes when we notice new symptoms. I also get pain along that side of my right...
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    Common Bodybuilding Anxiety

    Bodybuilding.com ThreadI just wanted to post this to show you guys how common it is. These guys don't think twice about it, but with our heightened anxiety levels, we automatically jump to worst case scenario.
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    Living With BFS For 1.5 Years

    Guys and Gals,Its me again. I have had BFS now for over a year and a half. My twitches were everywhere, my anxiety was through the roof, I had IBS, low libido, numbness, tingling, brain fog bone pain, "about to cramp" sensations, electrical sensations, etc... I had everything in the book. I was...
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    Beating BFS: Official Treatment/Cure Thread

    Let's all make a new years resolution to beat this terrible disorder. It starts in the mind. We need to all take control of put anxiety first. Next, we need to abstain from things that make us worse ie. Caffiene, alcohol, nicotine. We can do this. This is reversable.
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    Trouble Smiling: Help with Quaking Muscles

    Yea, I have good days and bad days. I don't know what upsets my bfs and makes me have a bad day but I'm currently trying to figure it out. I have all sorts of issues. Trembling face, numb hands when waking, twitches all over, tremors, brain fog, fumbling over words, choking on phlegm, ibs. Its a...
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    Trouble Smiling: Help with Quaking Muscles

    I have this... my face feels tingly 24/7. When I use the muscles they tremble. Part of bfs
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    Beating BFS: Official Treatment/Cure Thread

    Thanks for your response Secretagentman. My anxiety is minimal now, but when all of this first started I was going through some things in my head that led to panic attacks and depression. I've learned to accept my anxiety. Now I just want my body to get back to normal. Things that irritate my...
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    Beating BFS: Official Treatment/Cure Thread

    Can we get an official treatment/cure thread going? I'm over the anxiety and I'm starting to believe that this is all treatable and curable. I've noticed that when I'm fasting, I have absolutely no twitches at all. I'm not sure if its gut related, stress related or a combination of both. Any...
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    No Twitching on Paleo Diet?

    Glad to know I'm not alone. I think I have some ular/median/carpal nerve issues in my right arm as well. I'm starting to think this is a type of autoimmune diseaseand that it is fixable. I remember when this all started i had some type of virus followed by a sinus infection and twitching ever...
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    No Twitching on Paleo Diet?

    Guys and gals,I have been having pretty constant fascs. in my inner elbow near my funny bone. I recently switched to a paleo diet and the first day of my paleo diet I fasted for 24 hours... WHICH LET TO ABSOLUTELY NO TWITCHING!!!! For a whole 24 hours I didn't twitch. I would even try to think...
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    Diagnosis by Age, Sex, Region?

    I'm 24, white, male, 5'10", 185 lbs, From South Carolina... and I am obsessed with my symptoms. They consume my life
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    Inner elbow twitch

    Hey everyone, I have been twitching pretty consistently now for about 2 years. My bfs started after an abscessed tooth and heavy antibiotics combined with quitting nicotine (on/off of it over and over and over again), changing jobs, changing girlfriends, and extended use of adderall. I'm pretty...
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    Anxiety Overload: Twitching for 8 Months

    Hey guys, Back again. I thought I shook my als fears but i just can't get rid of them. My twitching still exists and I've also developed a few new symptoms. My voice still feels fine, but I have tingling sensations around my mouth 24/7. Also, my right arm has a vibration/tremor type of thing...
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    Anxiety Overload: Twitching for 8 Months

    Hey guys, Back again. I thought I shook my als fears but i just can't get rid of them. My twitching still exists and I've also developed a few new symptoms. My voice still feels fine, but I have tingling sensations around my mouth 24/7. Also, my right arm has a vibration/tremor type of thing...
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    Anxiety Overload: Twitching for 8 Months

    My twitches have subsided to about 20% of what they used to be. I contribute this to quitting using nicotine products. I still have the twitches but they're not as bad, as far as the semi'cramps go... I never get them anymore. The only thing that is still really bothering me is tightness on the...
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    Stress Related Symptoms Without Stress?

    BFS seems pretty common in the 18-30 year old range, I'm 24.
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    BFS: Starting a Teamspeak Chat

    Mike,Welcome to the club. What you're describing is typical of bfs. I believe that bfs is tied to anxiety more than anything. Mine started after the worst bout of anxiety that I've dealt with my whole life. A clean EMG means that you are MND free. Congrats.Cruz
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