atwitchybatty
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I wanted to thank all of you for your wonderful forum and input. I have twitched slightly for as long as I can remember but four weeks ago it became terrible. It was mother’s day and I was having a great day but noticed some weird tingling/pins and needles in my hands. This for some reason threw my anxiety into high gear. That night as I tried to sleep I had terrible strong twitching in my legs and arms. I have never experienced anything like this before. I let my anxiety take over and literally thought I was dying. I started writing out lists of things I needed to accomplish for my kids (we have four) before I die. I didn't Google anything though because I know that it can only make things worse but did remember two very scary things that I had noticed. One that Michael J. Fox's noticed his little finger start twitching and went to the Dr. and was diagnosed w/Parkinson's. At this point, a few of my fingers were definitely twitching! I also remembered reading when I had an annoying long term eye twitch a year ago that it can sometimes be caused by ALS. Why this didn't scare me back then I will never know but it certainly was scaring the garbage out of me now. So saw my PCD twice who put me on Lexapro and Xanax and finally after seeing how bad my anxiety was sent me to a Neuro. Finally, saw the Neuro who said he knew that I didn't have Parkin. but because I have bad Migraines he would run a MRI and also do an EMG just to make me feel better. The Dr. that ran the EMG was amazing he had me laughing the whole time and told me right away that I didn't have ALS. I went back to talk to the original Neuro Dr. this week and he was nice but just had me worrying me all over again when he said we could repeat the EMG test again it six months. He also said one of my eyelids is slightly droopier than the other. This is not what a person with anxiety needs to hear. So long, story longer yesterday I found this amazing site and it actually helped totally explain all of my weird symptoms. I now feel very confident that I don't have any of those terrible, awful and very sad diseases. I just have this benign, annoying syndrome that seems to be getting slightly better already. My user name is not to make fun but it is what my husband calls me. It's from a book we read our kids called Mr. Putter and Tabby. He is an older gentleman who adopts and older cat that just happens to get a little twitchy and batty around fish. So when I started to get twitchy and my anxiety was so high. He said in a very funny, sweet way that I was just like Tabby a little twitchy and batty. Nothing like a little humor to make a situation better. Thanks everyone for making me a little less batty! Jen