Experiences with Fasciculations

[wilburcat12]

Over the last couple of months I have been having fasciculation’s predominantly in the left gluteus maximus and more recently the left bicep femoris muscle. I have yet to notice any specific activity that sets the fasciculation’s into motion. I have also noticed altered sensation and temperature between both feet – left foot being cooler with a burning sensation on the base of my toes. It will not be until later (1-2 hours) that my left foot will become warmer than my right foot. I have good pedal pulses and no obvious venous or arterial disease. About five weeks ago I was talking to a friend who kept looking at my feet. I looked down to see that both feet were a dusky blue. This resolved after a couple of minutes – I haven’t noticed this again. I have also become rather prone to choking on spittle more frequently. The last episode had me dropping to my knees within seconds of choking, gasping for air. It took a couple of days to recover from this episode. My general swallowing does not seem impaired – I don’t seem to choke when I drink. I do get the odd ‘light’ fasciculation’s in other parts of the body; at times I feel like am quivering inside. I am not sure if they are fasciculation’s though. I have also in recent times developed highly painful nocturnal cramp in my thigh, and toes. At night I also find that my calf muscles are not relaxed – that sensation that one gets before onset of cramp. I used to get cramp in my toes as a child, this always occurred when I swam. Around the time the fasciculation’s started I have had horizontal double vision; I did see the doctor about this but left feeling that I was being a hypochondriac with no answers. The doctor did give me a blood form for blood tests; I haven’t yet gone the laboratory as I couldn’t find it until this afternoon. I will do this tomorrow. I rarely go to the doctor for such vague problems and am reluctant to go back because of these fasciculation’s and choking episodes.Over the past three years I have had regular massages and do regular stretches to help with muscle relaxation. I also take magnesium, calcium and multivitamins and done so for a couple of years. About a year ago whilst at work I experienced an electrical jolt that radiated from my neck, down my spine and exited from my heal. It was so painful that I first thought I had been stabbed physically in the neck and reacted. I was shocked to find no one behind me and no blood on the back of my neck.Does anyone have any suggestions on how I tackle these symptoms on my own.

 

[Gracer]

Hi SophiaPractically I am not a doctor but all your symptomes listed here seem to be like transient ishemias due to spontaneous spasmatic activity in the vessels. As for unilateral differernces in limbs temperature - I personally have it and that is not dangerous. It is just local spasms of the blood vessels common in anxious people or people with overall labile nervous system. It is usually transient and lasts not more than few hours. Practically I usually have to get some food to relieve it and used to take that as proper sign that I missed my regular meals.People with high anxiety may have spontaneous choking episodes. Usually it is exhausting yawning without ability to fill the lungs peroperly (it is related to brain breathing center signals, not to practical ability to breath). It is believed that this is a result of constant hyperventilation (excessive breathing). I am used to havve those yawning sessions since I was a child and sometimes they are really hardly bearable. In some personos it may result into choking episodes like you described. Due to lowered CO2 in your blood you start to have your vessels in the brain contracted which is not favorable, your body temperature chanes by the way and you can have your breathing really stopped in order to restore CO2 necessary for breathing center operation (that is why people in severe shock are asked to breath from the paper bag - to restore CO2 exhaled and prevent related unconsciouness or fuzziness and to restore self control).It is funny question maybe but did'nt you practiced any breathing related mind control technologies recently (like so called holotropic breathing etc.)? They can cause pretty similar issues (and that is why they are dangerous). But many people can successfully hyperventilate themselves due to regular life stress only without special excersises...As you are going to the lab anyway, I may suggest you to ask if they can do blood gases test to see if there are abnormalities in your CO2/O2 balance in the blood. many of fellows did that and appeared they are hyperventilators by nature. Simple training helps in that case.Doubled vision might be also transient result of ischemia (if doctor does not find any trouble inyour eyes or retina or optical nerve, then it is ishemic mostly).Generally for me your story has many evidences of strong long term muscle tension state/severe hyperventilation (choking, cramps), but not like MND or so.

 

[Gracer]

Sophia,thanks for clarification with choking issue - I can say only that this happens sometimes with all of us. I would not insist that you are anxious person of cousre, but hypersalivation parctically and most probably is caused by prolonged exposure to adrenaline (if not caused by specific medication or poisoning with alkaloids of course). Praсtically having several weeks of strange reactions might be enough to causing you hypersalivate... and this is a kind of vitious circle - each symptome causes another, that causes another one and so on... boom!I did not mind also angina (chronic congestive heart failure, if you mean that - English is my second language and I may miss something therefore). Obviously your issues look like being of very local nature (probably something close to well known Reynaud syndrome, however this is rather induced by cold, but I mean that it is characterised by severe local vessels spastic reaction turning the skin blue) and you say you had one episode in a childhood so one can conclude probabaly that this is unpleasant but not damaging and not dangerous reaction specific to you.As for stopping twitches...it can be either way to be honest. My own subsided to seldom ones in 4 month approx (after gabapentine and rexetine course becasue I am overly GAD vicitm) instead I had got increased cramps (night cramps too), however I am crampy person for many years already... they just started to come more frequently. Let's see what would be your bloodwork results (but often blood tests say noting clear about possible reason of twitching).