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Hello all. I am a 20 year old college student from Wayne, PA. For the past two months I have been suffering from some strange symptoms. Two months ago when it started I started feeling extremely fatigued and tired. Because of this I took about two weeks off with literally no exercise. During this time I started to develop some stiffness right above my right ankle, which seemed like nothing too serious. Two weeks later and the stiffness was now in both of my calves, ankles, and in my right forearm (still had not exercised). This is when I started to worry. I saw the doctor and was given a neurological exam and a TON of bloodwork which showed nothing wrong. I was a bit relieved, but still worried. Then over the next two weeks everything stayed the same with few developments. Then in the past two weeks I have begun twitching. The twitching can come on anywhere (arms, back, legs, feet, shoulders, i think its even happened on my lip, eyes and neck a few times) but it seems to mainly be in my calves. In my short time on here I have read that twitching can be BFS, but what worries me now is that my twitching is accompanied by stiffness and tightness in my calves and right forearm, wrist and thumb. My calves also feel very crampy and if I flex them they soon cramp up. They also feel like they vibrate sometimes . Also over the past two weeks I have began to play some basketball, and my dominant hand has stiffened up and i'm not sure if that could possibly be from shooting??. The stiffness is in my thumb and although it doesn't seem to be weakness (I can do push-ups on my finger tips, grip things, I have tested my thumb just by gripping things with it and my index finger and it hasn't shown any true weakness) the stiffness makes my thumb feel weak and makes it is very uncomfortable performing fine motor movements. I would describe it as my thumb feeling swollen.This feeling also seems to radiate into my forearm. As for overall weakness I seem to tire out from exercise very easily and after exercise I will twitch a lot. I can however still jump about the same height as before, run, do pushups, run up stairs, etc. I am seeing a different doctor in about a week, but currently i am just worried this could be the start of something terrible. Although I am 20, I have to admit after googling my symptoms I was panicking when I saw ALS pop up first. My questions are..Can BFS cause the pretty extreme stiffness I am talking about and also a feeling of weakness or fatigue in muscles? My only other question is just..does this sound like BFS?Current Symptoms include: Tire out easily from exercise, constant stiffness in calves, ankles, and right forearm wrist and hand, twitching ALL over, but I feel like it is mainly in my calves.Feeling of vibration in calves Some cramping and muscle spasms. Soreness upon simple exercising... Also I have a ton of joint cracking in my ankles, wrist, fingers..I can crack them constantly, which wasn't the case before.Any responses would be appreciated and thank you for taking time to read this. - John
