Sticky Flu and Nerve Pains

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daisy123

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I just visited my doctor. He thought it`s some virus doing this, and affecting some nerves or something. I`ve had a very sticky flu for a few weeks now. It`s getting better (flu), but I still feel tired and not 100% ok.....runny nose etc. I`ve had many weird pains and sensations during this virus. I even ate antibiotics just in case....and this caused some yeast infection in my private area(this happens everytime I take antibiotics).

I don`t know. I`m not twitching very much thought, just a few times a day. My thump is caramping and twitching like nuts thought.

Should I be concerned?
 
thank you all.

I`m really loosing my mind here. Foot still wont work! it`s weak. I`ve had muscle twitching for about a year now....could it be ...?
 
is numbness als symptom? Now I have this numb area in my foot/calf area. This is getting crazy! Anxiety is high now....

how could this happen to me? The worst thing I could imagine is that I could not walk on my heels....and now it`s true! Oh my God :crying:
 
There are no sensory changes with A##. No numbness, tingling, pins and needles etc. It is purely motor not sensory. Try to relax and take a deep breath. Easier said than done I know.
Take care
 
thanx!

It`s just when I googled this symptom, it was not very funny stuff to read. no mention nowhere it could be benign, and just normal sometimes.

"You said you can't walk on you heel on one of your legs right ? It seems weak and stiff"

yes. when I bend my foot upwards, I can feel these muscle between foot and knee being stiff and tired. Only thing I can gome up with, I`ve been sitting in front of this google machine waaayyy too much. I always sit in weird positions...
 
I am from Canada. It is a little like Finland, lots of trees and fu*cking cold in the winter. LOL

I'm glad you took what I said well. I am more austere, sometimes, with the younger BFSers because they have a chance to really get over this and get on with their lives. The middle-aged people, like myself, are less likely to get back to really enjoying life. They get to a point where they only enjoy whining, and would rather bytch than get better.

I like your spirit and think you have an absolutely awesome chance at putting all this bfs bullshyt behind you, and enjoying the fruits of this earth. I am 46, have been married for 20 years and have two teen age daughters. I enjoyed raising my family, but I also forgot what it was like to have fun, and just not feel guilty about it.

BFS showed me that it is this enjoyment, which is what connects to the spirit and makes us feel fulfilled. Of course, I don't mean to suggest that life should be a big drinking festival, but all the guilt we carry from our parents is crap. I tell my 18 year old daughter to enjoy her life too. I am very open about sex, drinking and smoking pot. I told her "why not" as long she is using protecton and not forgetting that she has to have some kind of a career to make her happy too. The career should be something that you love. Something that really grips you by the testicles and makes you excited to wake up in the morning.

Just some thoughts Miika...now get the hell out of here, and get out there and partay.

Basso
 
I don`t know what to think right now, I`m panicking all the time. Now this foot is twitching like nuts, and it makes me scared...yes, can you believe?
I have some other random twitches too, but now it`s focused on that area where I really don´t want it to appear.

I don`t know...Is it possible to twitch a year all over, and after one year I would get this muscle weakness, and it would be A##? You know, foot drop, twitching, cramping and every other symptom as well I have, could be A##! I`m actually little anxious, because numbness is gone from my foot....it was only thing pointing away from A##.... :oops:
 
miika, what you are describing is not foot drop. Stop diagnosing yourself, and stop googling your symptoms. This is an order. :eek:

I've said this before, to other folks who have done this, and now I guess it is your turn.

You can not earn your MD from the college of cyber-studies. Much as you try, you will never know as much as your neuro, and neither will we. Some of us might have more knowledge about bfs than the average physician, but that is simply because our symptoms bother us more than they do them, lol. Doctors are "bothered" by malignant diseases; terminal, life stealing menaces that cut people's time short and cause too much pain and suffering for a caring bystander to bear. And so, research monies, education, and study is thrown into finding cures and treatment for such things, because persons afflicted with the bad diseases are really, seriously struggling for their lives.

And here WE are, with our goofy twitches and cramps and odd feelings of weakness, and what do we do, but freak out over having a disease that we don't, and probably never WILL have? People with **S are not even as vexed or vocal about their symptoms as we are here. They are out there trying to grab what's left of their lives by the balls and stuff 90 years into 2.

So, believe your doctor, who has examined you in person, done all of your tests and declared you to be well. Trust him or her more than you trust a bunch of strangers on a message board who more than likely don't have the initials "MD" after their names.

Certainly don't trust yourself. When you researched "footdrop" online, you somehow managed to persuade yourself that you had it. Another fellow here thought he might have Myasthenia because his eyelids felt a bit droopy. And, yet another quite brilliant gal had diagnosed herself with a brain tumor, and had even convinced her doctors of her fate. None of you were correct, and none of you have **S, brain tumors, or Myasthenia.

Unless a doctor sits you down and gives you "the talk," live your life in blissful ignorance of what malady you might be suffering. It isn't as if you can do anything to change it by worrying, anyway. If that unlikely day ever comes, then you can fly into fits of panic and google to your heart's content, but...I would suspect and hope that you would find much more productive things to do with the time you had left....

Any day now, you could step outside your door and have a tragic car accident, or get electrocuted, or have a piano fall on your head. It would be idiotic to fret over any of those possibilities, and it is equally silly to worry about having a disease that, helloooo?...Pay attention here...YOU DON'T HAVE.

Blessings and hugs,
Sue
 
Listen to LisaLM—she knows what she's talking about! One thing to add: most people catch their feet on uneven ground. Many surfaces we think of as "level" really aren't, including paved sidewalks and even floors. It doesn't take much variation in level to cause problems, especially if you're not paying attention. This is not foot drop.
 
Ok. I could not sleep last night, I was just thinking what I might have..

First, a simple question, I guess...All over, random twitching is not ##S twitching? since that`s been my problem for a year now.

"Sure, it's possible. In fact, about 1 in every 50,000 twitchers has this happen each and every year"

so this means it`s basically not possible?

about the foot thing. I really think and HOPE it`s lower back related. I`ve always had "bad back". So I`m trying to ignore it, or atleast think it`s not related to my twitches anyhow.

so lets imagine :LOL: if I had a foot drop caused by ##S(yeah you said it`s not a foot drop, but imagine it was). my all over, random, on and off twitching would not have nothing to do with it? So then I would have ##S and BFS?

sorry for me being an idiot and asking too many questions! btw. Is this definitely a fact:

"What is the difference between a BFS twitch and an ALS twitch?
There is a BIG difference between the two. ALS twitches are caused by dying muscle tissue as the nerve endings disconnect between the muscle and brain which in return cause the muscle to die and shrink. This is a SECONDARY action and it ONLY happens AFTER the muscle has started it's dying process, NOT before. So with that, ALS twitches (by the time you notice them or IF you even notice them at all) will most certainly have some kind of weakness or immobility of the muscle involved at the same time. Also, ALS twitches and symptoms usually start in a hand or a foot and will migrate from that point forward progressively and continually and relentlessly. They will NOT be random twitches like BFS has."
 
Hi Miika,

sorry to hear you are still struggling...

I don't think anybody can tell ANY statement like this is 100% sure, there will be exceptions but that means than only a few cases out of the total will be reported to have a different onset.
Having said that, I want to tell you something..a colleague of mine a month ago woke up one morning and he was not able to lift his foot (heel on the ground) anymore, nor move his toes.
He is undegoing tests but EMG showed the nerve was damaged. What I am trying to tell you is that even at the right beginning, weakness due to dying nerve is extremely evident, we would not be discussing on this forum if it was foot drop or not...you would know.
And also he walks in a funny way...he has to lift his thigh much higher to make a proper step.

Stop questioning yourself and see a good therapist or ortho to find out if it is back related and get it treated.

Elena
 

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