Hi all. My experience with facsiculations began 11 years ago as a 23 year old. I had just graduated from college, had a 2 year old son at home with another on the way. It was a very stressful time in my life as you could imagine. Anyway, I have the potential to be a very anxious person given the opportunity, and jumped at the chance to torture myself over all the muscle twitching going on in my body. Didn't have access to the internet at that time, so checked out some books at our local library to find out what it was all about. Bad idea right? You bet is was. I was convinced I was in my final years of life as a 23 year old. Six months later, I went to see my doctor. He basically told me straight up that this twitching I was going through was normal and was being exaggerated by my anxiousness and my awareness of every little movement my muscles were making. I was driving myself insane. He was more concerned about my elevated blood pressure I came in with, but it was so obvious why it was so high. It was self inflicted.
Anyway, I made it through the next few months, got busy with life and pretty much put the twitching saga to rest. I was still having them, mind you, they just didn't bother me anymore. I came to the conclusion that they were nothing.
Eleven years later, I'm back at it. Woke up one night after a bad dream about having the disease(think I saw something on tv about it). It seemed very real and threw me into the spiral we've all been in at some point. Now, the twitching has gotten worse, of course, because its all I think about. I know its nothing, I know I've been living with this for a long time, but there's still that underlying fear.
My twitching is just like everybody elses...legs, calves, arms, hotspots, one timers, neck, face, hands, you name it. I've talked myself into weakness, into swallowing issues, everything you guys do. The twitching gets worse when I'm tired, after excersizing or after a night of having a few beers. The more nervous I get, the worse the twitching gets. Its all been stated on this site.
Anyway, I'm fighting through this again like all of you are. Hopefully will find some sort of comfort zone sometime soon. We all need to.
Take care.
Anyway, I made it through the next few months, got busy with life and pretty much put the twitching saga to rest. I was still having them, mind you, they just didn't bother me anymore. I came to the conclusion that they were nothing.
Eleven years later, I'm back at it. Woke up one night after a bad dream about having the disease(think I saw something on tv about it). It seemed very real and threw me into the spiral we've all been in at some point. Now, the twitching has gotten worse, of course, because its all I think about. I know its nothing, I know I've been living with this for a long time, but there's still that underlying fear.
My twitching is just like everybody elses...legs, calves, arms, hotspots, one timers, neck, face, hands, you name it. I've talked myself into weakness, into swallowing issues, everything you guys do. The twitching gets worse when I'm tired, after excersizing or after a night of having a few beers. The more nervous I get, the worse the twitching gets. Its all been stated on this site.
Anyway, I'm fighting through this again like all of you are. Hopefully will find some sort of comfort zone sometime soon. We all need to.
Take care.