hi,i posted here a fewdays ago about a painful weird feeling in my left arm/hand...i had some good advice from people saying its probably due to bfs! todayi was reading some old posts when i came accross a post stating that painful joints ARE NOT a good sign! my whole arm from shoulder to fingers is sore especially the joints in my hand,this is realy worrying me now.while my twitches are nearly nonexistant except the odd eye twitch or flutter here and there...the pain in my arm and hand has me in a state now...any advice much appreciated ,thank you x
Painful Joints: Worrying Concern
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OptimisticGuy
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Not sure about pain in joints.... I am twitching again after a good period of no twitching but my tongue started and been going for 4 weeks and then everywhere started prob due to my anxiety levels ! I have had chronic lower back pain on and off on the right side for about 4 years but strangely since my twitching started its now really sore on the left side ... Sore when I initially stand up but when I get moving its not too bad... I read the back pain can migrate from one side to another..Last night my knee was really sore... But I don't think you can stress about every ache and pain as everyone gets them and you are not twitching too much either ... Would I be right and say your are very anxious and stressed?
thank you anxious guy...yes im a very anxious person,always was a bit of a hypercondriac and been a nurse dosent help much either!all this started with sensory sfuff 3 weeks after i had my 2nd son.feelings of water droplets on my skin and the twitching started 2months after,i keep thinking this arm and hand stuff is the start of something sinister,cant stop worrying...i know i shouldnt,i have good days and bad days 
BUT WHY it should be a bad sign?In general, worse case of joint pain might be rheumathoid artritis - this is a real hell of course and really debilitating disease but still a person is able to live a tolerable life for decades, and there is a huge progress in treatment methods. And of course it is relatively easy diagnosted with Xray, CT and immuno assays.MND usually does not casue specific joint pains, as far as I can remember.I have no idea why in our case people often complain for joint pains (usually we are not satifsy RA criteria), but it is very common in BFS.I suppose it might be rather muscular pain or overall high sensitivity causing lowered pain threshold.Anyway, joint pain si very common, same for joint clicking, and by the way often BFS people are hypermobile too (and hypermobility is associated with non-rheumatic joint pains)
OptimisticGuy
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Well over the past 10 years I have had some strange stuff .... about 10 years ago I got a bad viral infection that knocked me off my feet for about 4 weeks and was very tired for at least a year and the first 4 weeks I had really bad vertigo... then I got a twitching thumb, you could see the thumb move like a pulse on its own and that kinda stayed for about a year ... every now and then over the past 10 years I get slight vertigo bouts but nothing too bad to keep me off work, I have learnt to get on with them, its just like slight sea sickness and not fully balanced but never falling etc.I also get all achy like flu like pains with no other symptoms almost every year or so ... really achy and joint pain since the viral infection I had when I was 15 but it was nothing compared to the one 10 years ago... The good thing is that he pain away goes away after a week or so.Then about 4 years ago my chin started to twitch for about 3-4 months or something and it was then I realized that I twitched everywhere and became hypersensitive to it but it passed and then about 3 months ago my eye twitched for a couple of weeks and now its my tongue tip for 4 weeks.... But I got my body wide twitches back when I started to worry about the tongue ones... so what I am saying is the body ones came after the chin and tongue and both times I had High anxiety.I too have been a hypochondriac and I definitely worry about nothing other than health...There seems to be a link to BFS and hypochondria / health anxiety or general anxiety / stress... I have read so much on this forum and other places and there are a lot of twitchers and all of them are anxious and stressed...I am trying to get my anxiety under control regarding health but its difficult, but I felt this way 4 years ago and then felt great for years in between so I am hoping a persistent chin twitch is no different to a thumb, eye or tongue twitch....That`s a snap shot of my story....
jamesray29
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My story is similar. I have always had some health anxiety--I admit it--I am a registered nurse who has worked the floors most of my 20+ years in my career. I have seen some bad stuff. I have always used Google to look up stuff. My family would tell you I have always been a little "uptight", anxious, prone to panic attacks. Problem is, this twitching of muscles 24/7 is something I have never seen in my nursing career. I think that may be why it is something I can't let go of mentally. It scares me & now I feel my doctors think I am just crazy & wonder how much they are going to "write me off" in the future. I am seeing a neurologist who specializes in "movement disorders" ( my neuro is referring me to him) this coming week, so I am hoping he offers me reassurance. I was told he is the "best" you can see in this area, so I am glad to have the appt.
thanks for all your posts,yulia you must be sick to the teeth of me,im sorry but now that i found this site its a release for my worriesanxious guy like you i need to get my health anxiety under control big time! i hope that tongue twitch goes away soon,it must be soooo annoying for you!nice to see another nurse here...a little knowledge is dangerous[in my case anyway],i look after very dependent patients,i should be grateful im not debilitated in any way..still i cant help but worry i also think my gp is tired of me ive asked him to refer back to neuro because of new symptoms..awaiting appointment and ive promised mtself that i will put all this behind me if i get the all clear...x
i also think my gp is tired of me ive asked him to refer back to neuro because of new symptoms..awaiting appointment and ive promised mtself that i will put all this behind me if i get the all clear...xnope, I am not sick really 
)) in fact, great similarity between personal stories gives me much more understanding that we really hace CERTAIN disorder (but not MND), than any possible medical papers in fact nurses are often fall into mental part of BFS (but you should read them story of SuzyQ who is registered nurce in neurology f I do not mess the info, and she was even admitted to the hospital - she was so really bad, and them she recovered completely).I am not a nurse, but my own story started after translating a huge bunch of neurological papers, including some really bad disorders description. Some stress on top, plus flu - and OOOOPS!I mean if SuzyQ can go all the way from deepest anxiety to complete healing, you can do this to. Why not? It is not something passive happening to us as disease, but active thing, herer you can plan and do a lot.
)) in fact, great similarity between personal stories gives me much more understanding that we really hace CERTAIN disorder (but not MND), than any possible medical papers in fact nurses are often fall into mental part of BFS (but you should read them story of SuzyQ who is registered nurce in neurology f I do not mess the info, and she was even admitted to the hospital - she was so really bad, and them she recovered completely).I am not a nurse, but my own story started after translating a huge bunch of neurological papers, including some really bad disorders description. Some stress on top, plus flu - and OOOOPS!I mean if SuzyQ can go all the way from deepest anxiety to complete healing, you can do this to. Why not? It is not something passive happening to us as disease, but active thing, herer you can plan and do a lot.