Thigh Twitches - Good or Bad?

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FreddieTheFox

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Does anyone know if thigh twitches are bad? Does anyone have these? I read on wikepedia that thigh twitches are a proof for ALS. Can anyone help me please??? Thank You FreddieTheFox
 
Hi, there I have had many thigh twitches and I know many of us on the forum have as well. With the benign twitches, they can ( and do) ocuur most anywhere. The location really isn't important.Linda
 
Hi~~ Where did you read that? Wikepedia? Cause I tried to look that up and couldn't find that. I suspect that you are taking that out of context somehow, I have NEVER heard or read that, and I know that alot of people, including me, have thigh twitching on here. I think it's actually one of the most common twitches. My neuro did say to me that with als, the twitching tends to be in the thighs and shoulders, but that being said, that doesn't mean that if you have twitches there, you have als. That is like saying that if you have a headache, you have a brain tumor; you can have a headache as a symptom of a brain tumor, but of course common sense would tell you that if you have a headache you don't have a brain tumor. Read it over again, and try to see if you took it somehow out of context. Did a medical journal post that, or a person? I couldn't find anything saying that. Val
 
Does anyone else know about twitches in the shoulder and thigh being more indicative of serious disease? I don't have thight twitches often, (that I remember), but with this relapse I've had a lot of shoulder twitching, (a real hotspot). Now I'm concerned........Denise
 
My thighs twitch all of the time. I think they are just part of my whole leg thing-24/7 in feet and calves. My shoulders twitch everyday, too. I don't think it means anyhting on where you twitch. It's all benign without weakness.
 
Someone told me that their neurologist said: It does not matter WHERE you twitch or HOW OFTEN you twitch or HOW SEVERE the twitches are . . . . they are benign unless you also have CLINICAL weakness and an EMG that shows . . . I think he said "evidence of dying muscle". Clinical weakness is not muscle fatigue which most of us have a lot. And some clinical weakness can be caused by spinal problems. Clinical weakness is where you are unable to hold your coffee cup or pick up a book or lift your foot to begin walking up stairs. I have twitches in my shoulders and thighs and everywhere else. I've been having those twitches for years and there are way more of them now than at any time in the past. I recently had a relapse after a lovely remission, and along with the relapse came new & more severe twitches in new places but they are random and all over my body.My advice: STOP reading anything about **S symptoms.I don't know how old you are or whether you've been to a neuro or ever had an EMG. I'm the age of people who most commonly get **S and I have not been to a neuro yet . . . . I am NOT worried that I have **S because there is so much information on this forum that makes me feel very comfortable with BFS or BCFS as a diagnosis. I have tons of twitches & cramps, no clinical weakness, and it has been that way for 4-5 years. If over the course of 4-6 months I become totally unable to lift my hand to use a mouse, for example, then I'll go to the neuro to check it out. But short of something like that I'm pretty satisfied that I have BFS/BCFS.Read: It helps me when I read the information presented there.Stacy
 
I got twitches in my left shoulder too, sure it's ok? and not a sign of **S? Got a EMG the 4th week of twitching witch was normal, should I go back?FreddieTheFox
 
It's funny which twitches people seem to think are the most obvious signs of *LS. For me it was tongue twitches. I have endured varying degrees of twitches for a very long time, when they moved into my face it gave me more concern, but it wasn't until I saw them in my tongue that I got really scared.You can twitch anywhere and everywhere, there is a whole board here of veteran twitchers that will prove that whatever you read in Wikipedia is bull.
 
Hoooooooold on !!!!!!!! were did you read that,i think what they mean is ....Looking at the big ALS picture of weakness and fascics caused by ALS at a certain point [usually late on]in the desease progression certain areas of twitching can follow a common patern, but many other symtoms would be present also.Were does it say? "usually if you have a random benign on the spot thigh twitch its as sure indicator this is the start on ALS even many years before the onset of weakness or atrophy".
 

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