Newbie Worried about Twitching

[HeythatguyyJustAnoth]

Hi, I'm new to the forum and a bit freaked out. I'm a 32yr old male, and I've had some pretty odd twitches over the past six weeks. They occur very often and are located in both calves and arches of my feet. I can see them happening and initially chalked it up to a temporary issue. Yesterday, I went to WebMD/Google and entered twitching/fasiculation and all cans of scary things popped up. I don't particularly have a noticeable weakness/atrophy and lead a pretty active lifestyle. I do have some anxiety issues and am currently on Lexapro. Now, my issue is that since I've read that fasculations are a symptom of various nerve diseases, I'm a bit freaked out. Not over the top, but the thought of having a terrible disease while raising two young beautiful children makes me a bit nauseous. Anyhow, this forum is interesting in that I'm less concerned than when I initially did my internet search. My questions are as follows...please answer if you have a moment...thanks and God Bless.

1) Is it common to have twitches in basically the same spots in both calves/feet?

2) I also get heat sensations throughout my body at various times, normal?

3) Would muscle weakness be noticeable? (I suppose it would)

 

[massagefanrx]

1) Yes

2) Yes

3) Yes...

but I've driven myself nuts for over 3 months with the same symptoms. I've got the tingling, twitching, burning and (as of late as the others have gone away) nasty sciatic pain. The pain actually makes me feel a little better because it seems "normal". The other stuff is enough to make you nuts. I tried 1) calcium, magnesium, and zinc supplements 2) gatorade 3) less caffeine 4) Klonopin when the symptoms really affected my life. Some combination of all those made things better now for the past week or so - and after 3 months, I feel like thats a BIG improvement!!

Shelley