Coming to Terms with BFS: Twitches?

[juliette]

I have been having twitches for 8 months now. Clean EMG six months ago. Does anyone else have twitches that continue even when you move or flex the muscle. Specifically the tricept. Just wondering...still coming to terms with the BFS Thanks Steve

 

[MeaganGranger]

Steve,I get this sometimes too, but what I realized is that most of the time its one muscle fiber that is twitching... and we have SO MANY muscle fibers... just because you are moving your arm does not necessarily mean that you are using the muscle that is twitching. You can definitely move an arm and still have your tricep or thumb or something twitching.Megan

 

[Krackersones]

I have felt twitching behind my knee while walking.

 

[angusglover]

Yes. My twitches do not stop when the muscle is flexed. I get them in calfs, thighs, arms etc. I can flex the muscle and watch it ripple under the surface.....

 

[FantasticFurball]

Twitching in flexed muscles are making some anxious becourse some internet-sites states something like "bfs is common when the muscles are at rest, unlike ALS that gives fascikulations in flexed muscles".It is really annoying to read, as the textbooks gives another explanation:"A simple clinical rule is that fasciculations in relaxed muscle are never indicative of motor system disease unless there is an associated weakness, atrophy, or reflex change."Meaning if you find twitching in relaxed muscles and theres no weakness, you can pretty much relax. But that doesnt mean that you have to be anxious if the twitching comes in flexed muscles. Twitching without weakness = no ALSRelax, you are fine FantasticFurball