Overcoming Fear of ALS: My Story

[RioTwitcher]

HiFirst of all, I must thank you all for the quiet support I've been taking from this forum from the past handful of months.My story - I´ve been suffering from fascis, jerks, tremors and the fear of ALS since mid 2007. I started like many here - noticed some fascis shaking my muscles, asked Doctor Google, MD, got the wrong answers and went nuts. After seeing two neuros and having a clean EMG in late 2007, I was (correctly) diagnosed with health anxiety, and treated it accordingly.Tought no doctor has ever told me that I have BFS (in fact, I asked both about it, and they didn´t seem to now what it was), I'm pretty much convinced I have it, as I have many symptons described in this forums.After two years twitching, jerking, controling anxiety, having a clean EMG, and being told by two neuros that I don't have ALS, the fear appear not only to still be here, but to be growing in the last few days. Thats because the other day I noticed (saw it, but couldn't feel) a small twitch in my right hand, between the thumb and the index finger. It only twitched when I maintained the muscle stressed, like when using the thumb to dial a number in the mobile phone. When relaxed, the muscle doesn't twitch.It made me worry something bad, as I always felt my twitches, rather than only saw them. Plus, you always speak of twitches in relaxed muscles. Are twitches in stressed muscles something worse? Or I am just too anxious? I can remember the doctor that performed my EMG telling me that the muscle must be absolutely at rest to pick up any abnormalities...Thank you in advance.R.

 

[FantasticFurball]

The place between the index-finger and thump is one of the most common places for twitches. It is certainly benign. I think it is called the tenar-muscle. As I read the description of your twitching, I can tell you that it is a mild form of BFS. Have no worries mr. Brazil.