Please give me your advise about all of this. I started this whole thing out in January with leg cramps in both legs. My doc sent me for an emg that came back clean, however just a few short days after the emg I started getting muscle twitching. The muscle twitching has been relentless and is all over my entire body as well as just recently I have felt it in my tongue. I have read numerous things about tongue twitching and am quite concerned at this point. If I had my emg only on my legs and back, would this emg be able to definatly tell me that I don't have the dreaded a**? I don't feel like I have any muscle weakness at all. I am getting a little fed up with my PCP who doesn't offer any help, just gives me more drugs to try. Please give me some idea of what this might be. Thanks for your help!
Ask for Advise on Muscle Twitching
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MovingLess
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Lets see, twitching, cramping, rapid onset, body wide, no muscle weakness... you have BFS 
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)Can that be positive with only one emg? I know I am rambling, but it goes over and over in my mind every day that I might have ALS. Do you know if ALS can be detected long before the symptoms occur or what? How long have you suffered with BFS and what do you do to lessen your symptoms?
I know I am worrying about this way to much! I really appreciate your feedback and your optimism about this. It helps to talk to those who are dealing with this and are able to deal with it without the worry of having ALS. Thank you for the support. I am trying every day to try and live every day to it's fullest and trying to get this horribe thing out of my mind. It helps to talk those of you who post. It gives me alot of comfort. So if nothing else, thank you for your words of encouragement. I will try harder to get this out of my mind and move on with life. Thanks again to all!!
FantasticFurball
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I know how you feel. But you where examined and scanned and I guess they looked after ALS especially. ALS is not hard to rule out and if you passed a clinical examination and an emg then you do not have ALS 100%. Listen to those thousands of posters on this site. They have all been there, tried that. And yet none have ever reported anything sisnister back. I wouldnt dwell too much about this. It isnt worth it - believe me. Get back to real life - it deserves you....
AussieSurvivor
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I am another that has not gone beyond the initial GP visit for informaion on my 'condition' He just gave me a bunch of negatives for some of the other basic heatlh issues , that may cause twitching/nerve myopathy. I have self diagnosed BFS with some degree of confidence-since that visit ( via info on this site). See no need to persue any more tests at this stage. And I agree with FantasticFurball in reducing sypmtoms. I am working on trying to implement ( the stress/anxiety bit a struggle) at least 4 out the 5 suggestions..... Well 5/5 really, but one not overly sucessful! )cheersRodger
)cheersRodgerjuliacristina
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I've been twitching for nearly 2.5 years. I just got done doing 30 minutes on my elliptical. My right foot is twitching about every 4 seconds now which is higher than normal. But that's the place that I've had is most twitches since this started and it gets worse after exercising.My primary care doctor says that my twitches are caused by stress which keeps the muscles tense which cause them to get over-fatigued and twitch. I don't know if that's true, but it's as good of an explanation as any. After nearly 2.5 years, I still have no obvious weakness, though I've perceived weakness come and go many times during that time period.