neySueSid567
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Keg,
Glad you are doing better. Maybe the meds are helping you calm down. I bought the Lucinda Bassett tapes on stress/depression and anxiety (they were well worth the money) and that's one of the things they say is that sometimes we need meds to get us out from the hell pit we're in before we can start to move forward. If meds helps that happen, so be it!
I agree with the worry part. I can start obsessing about my symptoms and be a mess before I know it. Our mind is very powerful. And...yes I can then feel a lot more twitches.
I had an appt. with a new internest today. We moved back to CA from another state (so happy to be back), and I needed a new doc. You know how we all stress out about the docs we see...will they think we're nuts or will they tell us we have a month to live!? Yikes. Anyway, what a pleasant appt. it was. I told her my story about the twitching, worry about ALS, about my anxiety etc. She took my hands in hers, looked at them carefully, checked my feet (am going back for a physical, this was an "intro" appt) and said very firmly...."you do NOT have ALS, no way. I've seen it before and I can tell by just looking at you that you don't have it." She rattled off some facts about my muscles look great, blah blah blah. Id wasn't paying that much attention because I was so stressed out at just going over my fears about ALS that I didn't catch all that she said.
I've been twitching for 10 months now and still am going strong! Again, she has yet to do a detailed exam (coming up), but it did make me relax. She has had patients ( she's in her mid to late 50's) with it and said that ALS is very obvious, she's not worried about me and to start living.
Yes, she's no neuro (they have a requirement to have no personality, did you know that! ha) but she's an experienced doctor and said what I needed to hear AGAIN. Just thougth I'd share my experience. Oh, she wanted me to think about starting buspar (antidepressant without the "kill your sex drive" side effect as in SSRI's) or klonopin. She told me to research it (I told her how much I research things, especially being a nurse) and let her know what I wanted to do. I like her attitude.
Enough said, hope all of you are doing well.
Sue
Glad you are doing better. Maybe the meds are helping you calm down. I bought the Lucinda Bassett tapes on stress/depression and anxiety (they were well worth the money) and that's one of the things they say is that sometimes we need meds to get us out from the hell pit we're in before we can start to move forward. If meds helps that happen, so be it!
I agree with the worry part. I can start obsessing about my symptoms and be a mess before I know it. Our mind is very powerful. And...yes I can then feel a lot more twitches.
I had an appt. with a new internest today. We moved back to CA from another state (so happy to be back), and I needed a new doc. You know how we all stress out about the docs we see...will they think we're nuts or will they tell us we have a month to live!? Yikes. Anyway, what a pleasant appt. it was. I told her my story about the twitching, worry about ALS, about my anxiety etc. She took my hands in hers, looked at them carefully, checked my feet (am going back for a physical, this was an "intro" appt) and said very firmly...."you do NOT have ALS, no way. I've seen it before and I can tell by just looking at you that you don't have it." She rattled off some facts about my muscles look great, blah blah blah. Id wasn't paying that much attention because I was so stressed out at just going over my fears about ALS that I didn't catch all that she said.
I've been twitching for 10 months now and still am going strong! Again, she has yet to do a detailed exam (coming up), but it did make me relax. She has had patients ( she's in her mid to late 50's) with it and said that ALS is very obvious, she's not worried about me and to start living.
Yes, she's no neuro (they have a requirement to have no personality, did you know that! ha) but she's an experienced doctor and said what I needed to hear AGAIN. Just thougth I'd share my experience. Oh, she wanted me to think about starting buspar (antidepressant without the "kill your sex drive" side effect as in SSRI's) or klonopin. She told me to research it (I told her how much I research things, especially being a nurse) and let her know what I wanted to do. I like her attitude.
Enough said, hope all of you are doing well.
Sue
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