pokemonmasterraids
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Okay, I have had all these lovely symptoms since I was a very young child. Since I was born 12 weeks premature the doctors told my mom I had CP when I was a toddler. We spent the rest of my childhood living on the streets or in motels, so naturally I never really saw a Dr. for anything. Well, I grew up and was a very active child/teen. I even ran a 5:20 mile in high school. So, when I got to be in my 20's and the symptoms started getting more pronounced I began to question the CP diagnoses. I don't know many peolple with CP who could run like did. I started a journey of going from neuro to neuro getting diagnoses after diagnoses. So, finally I got a reccommendation from a friend of mine to a neuro. He was the first Dr. who I felt actually listened to what I was telling him and took notes. He then did what no other Dr. had done, he sat and watched me for a few mins. My twitching was bad that week due to stress levels. He told me he saw very little if any signs of CP and that he thought I had CFS. He later confirmed that by doing a full EMG, which, again, no other Dr. had done. During this whole process of getting diagnosed my son had a major accident and shortly after began having the same movement issues I have. I asked his Ped about it, at the time still thinking I had CP. His ped was not concernced and said that it was normal for toddlers to develope these things as a response to stress. He said that as long as they go away by 6 months he would not be concerned about it. I few months later I got my diag. It has been past 6 months and while his twitches are not nearly as bad, I still notice them every now and then. So, my question is, is there an hereditary factor to CFS? I certainly don't want to expose him to the testing for it at his age but I am curious to see if there is any research on this issue.