Newbie Experiencing Fasciculations

[NicknamePaintedOn]

Hello, My name is Chris. I am completely new to this stuff. I am a 30 year old male and have recently started experiencing some fasciculations or twitchings under my right thumb. I have only been experiencing this for a few days now but am a little scared. I started typing on the internet and found all kinds of stuff related to als and the like. Its a little scary for me as I have never experienced anything like this before. I don't have any weakness that I know of. I feel totally fine, but the thumb thing is scaring me a little bit. I have not gone to the Dr's yet or anything. Its weird, the twitching is no where else on my body. My thumb may be fine for a few minutes and it will twitch once or a few times. This hapens on and off throughout the day. I am also a profesional armwrestler, so I wonder If i could have aggricvated somethinbg in my arm to causethe twitch?? I haen't niticed any loss of strgnth or anything of the like. CAn anybody please help??

 

[skywalker1977]

Sounds quite normal to the kinds of things people on this site have. Most people on with BFCS have far more body parts affected. I would recommend immediately reducing your stress. Try some yoga or meditation for a week and get good sleep and see how things go after that.

best wishes,
Kevin

 

[NicknamePaintedOn]

I just wonder if its anything to worry about though

 

[MorrisM]

Hi Chris,

Absolutely nothing to worry about

Thumb twitching is the most common place for anyone to have twitches or so I'm told. I started with a persistent thumb twitch then ended up twitching EVERYWHERE!

You're right, twitching without REAL CLINICAL WEAKNESS is not ALS, don't even go there, believe me you don't need to put yourself through all the stress.

First thing, searching the web for info on twitching..STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY! if you really are worried, go see your doc and have a chat and he'll quickly reassure you.

Read the sticky post BFS in a nutshell here:

then go out and enjoy your life

 

[darric1]

Ditto Morris_M. Nothing to worry about. Thumb twitching is very common even with people without BFS. I think stress related twitchees most commonly affects the eyelids and thumbs. I read that on numerous sites. Don't sweat the thumb twitching. I also get the thumb twitches as many people on this site do, and none of them have anything terribly wrong with them.