onesMJonesy
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Gosh I've got myself worked up about my symptoms and MS. Most of my twitches occur in my right leg and foot. When the twitches occur I feel like a sense of vibration/electricity/buzzing - I'm not sure how to describe it (perhaps like when you play a guitar string and then it vibrates). Sometimes these twitches can be tiny and sometimes real thumpers. At the present time there are much less thumpers and more tiny/buzzing type twitches. When I first developed these twitches they always felt like thumpers 24/7 . Never any relief unless I was walking and moving the muscle. The nature of the beast has now changed as most of them are now more tiny/buzzing type twitches that last for a second). Somehow I've managed to get myself all worked up about MS. Do my symptoms sound like BFS (that's what my neuro thinks the problem is). I can't seem to work out how a neuro rules out MS. I'm having a brain MRI done next week at my request. My neuro thinks it's completely unnecessary but he has agreed to it so that I can get some peace of mind. I feel very fragile at the moment and am struggling. Do my symptoms reflect MS? I'm highly anxious as well, is that not a sign of MS as well? I try so hard to tell myself that I have a benign condition but then this evil monster creeps into my head and tells me that MS can take ages to diagnose and it's not that easy to do. My other worry is that everytime I been to the neuro (which is adding up to quite a few) they've never seen my twitches even when they tap my leg. It just never shows up when I most need them to although I can feel them deep inside. I know if I place my hand on certain areas of my leg I can feel them but not necessarily see them, although some of them are visible. I really don't know much about MS but somehow I've managed to get myself worked up about this. I do get twitches elsewhere but it's the hotspot in the leg that upsets me and has me so consumed with concern. Does MS present itself in one limb or is it more widespread? I need clarification and I was hoping someone on this forum could guide me.Maria
). I just posted myself on buzzing and it's a classic sign of BFS (belatedly, it appears that I've discovered you may have the same buzzing pattern that is bothering me at the moment). I find it one of the most annoying, too. MS symptoms don't go away when you move the limb or walk, either. Your neurologist has already said that you likely have BFS; the MRI WILL bring you peace of mind. Your symptoms sound like BFS and nothing more, nothing less (well, maybe less!). I've never heard of MS presenting as twitching or buzzing; it can indeed take some time to confirm a diagnosis of MS but in a way that should comfort you. If all the doc needed was a bout of buzzing, twitching and/or tingling, it would be a snap to determine. I think you are in the BFS club.As to the anxiety--if that was a hallmark of MS--and I don't mean to be insensitive--nearly all of us here would have MS! I for one have wrestled with that evil monster to which you refer, so you are by no means alone. But I think you can take comfort in your doctor's diagnosis of a BENIGN condition--you have BFS, not MS! I know from my own experience it's tough to accept what the docs say at first, but you're going to be fine. A little twitchy maybe, but fine!Take care,Mark