Starting Out With Weights: Results?

[PopeyGod]

First if you read some of my previous posts you will know I recently decided to start back on a fairly light working out with wieghts...For the first two weeks I felt great more energy, shoulder pain back pain had subsided, sleeping alot better and just an overall feeling of good health.. So friday I did 3 sets of squats (3sets of about 15 with about a total of 30lbs of wieght0....After I did that I experience alot of fatigue in my right leg that I did not have in the previous two weeks at all. It felt like I had concrete in my leg. My heavy leg has subsided but know I am feel tingling/pins-needles-warm sensation,pain I did not have before in right leg mostly but sometimes in left.. let me also say that my very first symptom was a pain in right shoulder when I lifted wieghts) I thought maybe a pinched nerve but MRI on neck and thorasic did not show any pinched nerve. Doc did say I had a small cervical disc bulge but it was not touching any nerve.Pain would come for a week than go for two or three mybe a month or two..Did not think much of it after the mri's. I had random tingly opon waking in bottom of feet but it would fade after i took a couple of steps...Than July came and all hell broke loose...I changed to 3rd shift at work in june and I wonder if the sleep change may have trigged this crap even more.. I have a very hard time sleeping even on weekends. I just seem to jerk right before I drift and i wake up akot sweating... Then theres the pain in penis which I have never read on here before as a BFS. It is a burning UTI like but it waxess and wans to much to be that. I even feel it during and after ejactulationAlso I can tell my right is alot weaker than my left and smaller above the knee in the thigh area. I read on here about twitching being beign usless there is weakness. Well I have weakness now. This is not my imagination. Thinking back I do trip alot because of my right leg...Have I been dragging it some and not really notice it.?I guess my question is if I had ALS (or MS) would I have been able to do those two weeks of weight lifting and squating with only normal muscle fatigue or am I have a relapse of some sort because my shoulder and neck pain are also back.. Like I said I had not felt this type of weakness the other two weeks I was doing squats with even more wieght...Can physical exertion make ALS come on quicker. I know it can cause an MS relapsI need to see a neuro but I am scaried too. I am afraid of what he will say. I no that is wrong but I just keep hoping all of this will go away like it has done before. But it has gotten so much worse I don' think it will go away this time...Grown men don't cry and I have..

 

[angusglover]

If it is any consolation, I used to wake up with serious sweats in the groin area...and I mean serious sweats, so bad that I would have to change the sheets and stuff. I also jerk before going to sleep. In fact, one time my jaw jerked so bad, I almost bit my tongue off...Now, I find myself with what feels like weakness in legs but in actual fact is not weakness. I know this because I also find myself self testing constantly and when faced with a flight of stairs, I will run up, just to prove to myself that I still can. The only difference is now that I am outta breath when I get there...The fatigue is a major worry to me as I have never had it before but have had it in my legs constantly now for nearly 6 months...I am waiting on my EMG next as my bloods came back normal...whatever that means....Stay Well...

 

[RipleyGates]

If you are working out it is doubtful that you have ALS. what about sciatica? that will cause the symptoms you describe I know this because I have had to have two lower back surgerys.The pain in the leg can be unbearable along with weakness and numbness. Have you had an MRI of the lower back? As for your other situation, It sounds like you could have a urinary tract infection.

 

[TompeteA]

I to have weakness in the right leg, it is the most annoying symptom. A year ago I was doing full blown leg work outs, lunges, squats, hack squats, leg exstensions. The first thing to go was the lunge, my right leg would just give out, loose my balance etc. Then the squats, then the leg exstensions. I have not worked out my legs in 8 months. I have had clean EMG's on the leg, clean MRI of the spine, but the leg is weak and I do not know why. My only theory is the muscles in that leg have twitched constantly for 18 months, maybe it is causing some sort of fatigue. I have looked high and low for answers, but at this time I do not have any.

 

[percryston]

Dear Joe,I have not attempted to resume my workouts as of yet but plan on doing so after tomorrow when I have my emg done as long as the neuro sees no reason why I shouldn't. What I can advise you is that I have had the burning feeling with urination twice in my five weeks since all this started, the first time within the last week and again this morning. The first time it happened it was just for a brief few seconds during urination but today it was for the entire time that I was going, but in the times Ihave gone today since it has been normal. I can also say that although I have not been back to the gym since this all started that I question myself as to whether or not I have lost some strength/stamina. Of course with sixe weeks away from the gym I would expect to lose some strength/stamina/ and muscle tone but I seem to fatigue and get sore over much less exertion now than before this all came about, especially on the right side. That is one of the srangest things of all with me it seems that although I have had widespread signs and symptoms the majority in both intensity and frequency occur on the right side. About two weeks ago I was standing at work and decided to do a little "self testing" on my calves by doing twenty or so calve raises and within no time they felt exhausted and like they could cramp anytime. Another example is like today after cleaning gutters and mowing grass yesterday for about six hours or so I feel at least twice as sore as the same activities would have left me in the past. Although I do not know for sure what my diagnosis will end up being I know that I feel more and more confident all the time than I have BFS or something benign but similiar and I am determined to not let it get the best of me. Spend some time reading some of the great posts here and you will probably feel alot better and don't be afraid to see the doctor, the sooner you find out what is/isn't going on the sooner your stress/anxiety levels may start to go down.Take Care,Mike