I've had strange, undiagnosed symptoms since about a year and a half ago. It started with headaches, then numbness & tingling mostly on my right side. Then I started getting fasciculations along with muscle pain and fatigue. I've had other weird symptoms since, including a few bouts of nystagmus (rapidly oscillating vision), tremor after any physical activity, and semi-clumsiness. Most of these symptoms come and go, almost never lasting more than a few days or weeks.
I had pretty much every test imaginable run on me (CT brain, blood work, emg, mri, etc.) about a year ago and all they came up with was carpal tunnel. What was funny is I didn't read about ALS until a few months after the neurologist ran the emg, so I had no clue what good news it was to only have carpal tunnel. I've never been officially diagnosed with BFS, but everyone I've talked to has said it sounds closer to this than anything else.
My problem the last few weeks has been an extremely tired, painful shoulder with all the muscles bunched up, and swallowing problems. After two weeks, the shoulder just got better, but my swallowing problems still come and go throughtout every day. I can seem to swallow food and drinks fine, but I always seem to have a huge build up of saliva right after eating that's difficult to swallow. It feels like there's a huge lump in my throat, and it will last for awhile, then go away.
My question is, should I just wait this out for several more days and see that happens? It's really only been bugging me the last week or so, and it seems fine first thing in the morning. It doesn't bother me when I sleep, and comes and goes during the day. I've been under alot of stress with class the last month or so, and it seemed to really flare up after graduation. I thought I was in big trouble with both the shoulder and swallowing problems, but the shoulder thing just completely disappeared a few days ago, and has felt great. I know stress and worry about things like ALS can cause all sorts of weird symptoms, even if you're not consiously thinking about it, and I've definitely been obsessive about worries in the past.
I also know this could be MS, but like I said, the doctors said no signs of demyelinating illnesses. Should I just chill out and deal with this for another few days or weeks, or listen to that voice in the back of my head telling me to run screaming to the neurologist for another emg? I just don't want to jump the gun like I have in the past, and drive my family crazy with more tests revealing nothing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
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I had pretty much every test imaginable run on me (CT brain, blood work, emg, mri, etc.) about a year ago and all they came up with was carpal tunnel. What was funny is I didn't read about ALS until a few months after the neurologist ran the emg, so I had no clue what good news it was to only have carpal tunnel. I've never been officially diagnosed with BFS, but everyone I've talked to has said it sounds closer to this than anything else.
My problem the last few weeks has been an extremely tired, painful shoulder with all the muscles bunched up, and swallowing problems. After two weeks, the shoulder just got better, but my swallowing problems still come and go throughtout every day. I can seem to swallow food and drinks fine, but I always seem to have a huge build up of saliva right after eating that's difficult to swallow. It feels like there's a huge lump in my throat, and it will last for awhile, then go away.
My question is, should I just wait this out for several more days and see that happens? It's really only been bugging me the last week or so, and it seems fine first thing in the morning. It doesn't bother me when I sleep, and comes and goes during the day. I've been under alot of stress with class the last month or so, and it seemed to really flare up after graduation. I thought I was in big trouble with both the shoulder and swallowing problems, but the shoulder thing just completely disappeared a few days ago, and has felt great. I know stress and worry about things like ALS can cause all sorts of weird symptoms, even if you're not consiously thinking about it, and I've definitely been obsessive about worries in the past.
I also know this could be MS, but like I said, the doctors said no signs of demyelinating illnesses. Should I just chill out and deal with this for another few days or weeks, or listen to that voice in the back of my head telling me to run screaming to the neurologist for another emg? I just don't want to jump the gun like I have in the past, and drive my family crazy with more tests revealing nothing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
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