Hi,This month is my two year anniversary of twitching. I was a basket case not from the minute I googled, not when my body exploded with twitching, but when I called a neurologist to make an appointment and explained to the assistant what was going on, and was called back within 5 minutes and asked if I could come in immediately. Yep, that did it. And when I was told that I appeared to have BFS but *** couldn't be immediately ruled out and that I would be monitored I became a basket case for 6 months. After months of twitching and muscle flinches, my doctor ordered an EMG. I think that's the name of the test. It would completely negative for anything ugly. So while I could doubt and second guess myself, and my doctor, I decided it would be foolish for me to second guess the test results because they simply never lie. And from that point on life got much better. I don't dwell on it at all now though I do still twitch 24/7 and I've had an ongoing eye twitch for 4+ months now, the longest for a continuous twitch. Staying off this group helped. Panic spreads panic. I come back now and then in the hopes that someone has found the miracle cure to make it stop. Twitching doesn't physically hurt, there is nothing drastic wrong with me, and I chose not to dwell on it, though I did enjoy the 25 pound weight loss during that 6 months, which I immediately put back on once I put the happy face back on. I think I need to find another disease of the week!
And I came in as 40-something out of 300. Not bad, not bad. AND crazy. Here 2 years after, the brain is still playing around a bit, sometimes though, but I guess it is just a habit, a way of thinking. But if I look back, my common senses tells me, that Im not ill at all. The things I did the last two years... Apart from a muscle-injury I got when I played football (did you read that: "playing football") after a year of twitches, I think that I just lived a completely normal life. Today I ran 3 km for the first time in many months. And I was able to. As Im able to take care of two children, work, sailing a boat, eating too good food... The twitches goes on and on. But the fear has changed to a "what is this now - &%&#%-thing". Right now I have twitches at the shoulderblade, the neck, arms, feets, front, back - you name it. The whole palette as described in "BFS in a nutshell". And yes, Im over the fear but sometimes (when you are not looking) Im checking body-parts out of habit... I really have to stop that you know. Perhaps another two years from now? 