Staring at Hands - Twitch Alert!

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usysparawl

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Today I was staring at my hands again. (The area between my pinkie and wrist has been twitching/contracting alot lately.) I was starting to feel better cause I read that usually in small muscles like in the hands, weakness almost always presents first. Suddenly, I noticed a very tiny twitch at the base of my thumbs -- I am talking tiny!!! It moved constantly. I finally checked my pulse, and it seems to be a tiny vessel. Then, I looked really hard and found one on the other thumb. Has anyone mistaken a pulse for a twitch? Can pulses be seen in tiny veins?

I know I am being hypervigilant here . . . it also appeared the fleshy area between my thumb and pointer finger is slightly twitching and my fingers are moving as well.

Peg
 
THIS IS ABSURD!!!

Now I have a REAL twitch between my pointer finger and thumb on the top of my hand! It's big and I can feel it. I truly believe I got this one because of all that *beep* stuff I read about atrophy, etc.!!!

CAN WE CAUSE CERTAIN AREAS TO TWITCH? POWER OF SUGGESTION?
 
I certainly think staring, obsessing or just having too much "mind-chatter" relating to twitching makes it much worse. Does for me, I think about it too much, it gets worse.

Relax, and enjoy the day...this too, will pass.

Brian
 
I know what youre talking about. Sometimes I will feel a twitch in my ankle that coincides with my pulse perfectly...it will last like a minute or so like that...then go away. BFS is one crazy condition.
 
My 1st neuro was asked to do an EMG on another Dr at the hospital. He thought he had als because of a twitch on his hand. Turned out it wasn't a twitch but it was a pulse. If a Dr. from a good hospital can make that mistake so can we on some of our twitches.
 
SO i'm in with my First Neuro . . .and I'm complaning about the fascilations.

he says he sees no evidence of anything wrong. . .so finally I point to the palm of my hand which, to me, looked like a little fascilation.

He started at it a second, then looked back at me and said "that is your pulse".
 
My great-uncle had total left hand weakness and severe atrophy in the web space between thumb and forefinger. He never went to the Dr, but he regained function in his hand although the atrophy is still noticable. That was 18 years ago so you can see that even people with definite als symptoms don't always have als. Hope that makes you feel better. If that happened to me like my great-uncle I would freak knowing what I know now!
 
Power of Suggestion.. Hilarious.. I think the same thing

I was reading about someone having a twitch in their tongue. I kind of snickered thinking that would be a weird feeling, cause I never had it. I am not kidding.. SECONDS after reading about it my tongue started to twitch, and now does all the time.

Another strange thing: One of my hotspots is my left upper eye lid. It twitches all the time. I can even make it twitch on demand by closing my eye tight and reopening it quickly. However, if I look in a mirror to see the twitches, it will never twitch. HUH?
:rolleyes:
 
I didn't get tongue twitches until I heard they may be a "bad sign". Then I suddenly got them all the time! Now I know better and they mysteriously went away.
 

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