Hi all,
I'm not new here but haven't visited for probably a year. My twitching started a few years ago, "after" my first pregnancy [not during]. I ran around from neuro to neuro and had so many MRI's and a couple of EMG's and nothing showed up. My last flare-up was almost a year ago, and I thought I was happily past all of this this.
I'm now 21 weeks pregnant with twins, and wouldn't you know -- I'm having some troubles again. The occasional twitching in my arm or finger is not what is bothering me. I'd rather have the widespread twitching anyway than when it seems focused on one area. But for the last month, my lower left leg and foot have been twitching and buzzing and just feeling weird overall. At first I blew it off and said "here we go again" but it's become unsettling now and I'm starting to get those worried thoughts again. Like I said, if it was all over and not just focused so much on this one part, I wouldn't worry so much. There are days when I feel like that lower leg and foot are weaker.
I don't want to drive myself crazy about this, as I have done in the past. I basically lost almost a whole year of my son's life being so freaked out about ALS and/or MS ... or something that was seriously wrong with me. It left me little time to really enjoy my baby. I find recently that when I lie in bed at night and this whole thing is going on that I'm slipping back into that terror again from three years ago. And when I feel a twitch in my arm or my finger instead of that one area on my left leg or foot, I think "good -- at least it's not staying in one spot." But for the most part, it really is.
I actually called my neuro again this morning to go see him later this week. It's been at least a year since I've been in his office. I thought I at least mentally had this under control, where I knew it was a thing that may pop up now & then in my life but would really mean nothing in the long run. Now I'm back to fighting this in my mind again -- going back and forth between the fear and what my past experience has taught me. But then I tell myself that maybe this time it's different and it really "is" something ... and then I go to that bad place where I start thinking about how I'm going to take care of all these kids if I start becoming disabled.
Wow, I really thought I had a better handle on all of this. Well, I did for a while there, but this neuro stuff can really scare the heck out of me when it really gets going. I'm hoping the doc this week can do some strength tests on me to give me some reassurance. On the other hand, I'm scared to go and get checked.
Thanks for the support here. This is such a great site. It got me through some very rough times over the last few years.
I'm not new here but haven't visited for probably a year. My twitching started a few years ago, "after" my first pregnancy [not during]. I ran around from neuro to neuro and had so many MRI's and a couple of EMG's and nothing showed up. My last flare-up was almost a year ago, and I thought I was happily past all of this this.
I'm now 21 weeks pregnant with twins, and wouldn't you know -- I'm having some troubles again. The occasional twitching in my arm or finger is not what is bothering me. I'd rather have the widespread twitching anyway than when it seems focused on one area. But for the last month, my lower left leg and foot have been twitching and buzzing and just feeling weird overall. At first I blew it off and said "here we go again" but it's become unsettling now and I'm starting to get those worried thoughts again. Like I said, if it was all over and not just focused so much on this one part, I wouldn't worry so much. There are days when I feel like that lower leg and foot are weaker.
I don't want to drive myself crazy about this, as I have done in the past. I basically lost almost a whole year of my son's life being so freaked out about ALS and/or MS ... or something that was seriously wrong with me. It left me little time to really enjoy my baby. I find recently that when I lie in bed at night and this whole thing is going on that I'm slipping back into that terror again from three years ago. And when I feel a twitch in my arm or my finger instead of that one area on my left leg or foot, I think "good -- at least it's not staying in one spot." But for the most part, it really is.
I actually called my neuro again this morning to go see him later this week. It's been at least a year since I've been in his office. I thought I at least mentally had this under control, where I knew it was a thing that may pop up now & then in my life but would really mean nothing in the long run. Now I'm back to fighting this in my mind again -- going back and forth between the fear and what my past experience has taught me. But then I tell myself that maybe this time it's different and it really "is" something ... and then I go to that bad place where I start thinking about how I'm going to take care of all these kids if I start becoming disabled.
Wow, I really thought I had a better handle on all of this. Well, I did for a while there, but this neuro stuff can really scare the heck out of me when it really gets going. I'm hoping the doc this week can do some strength tests on me to give me some reassurance. On the other hand, I'm scared to go and get checked.
Thanks for the support here. This is such a great site. It got me through some very rough times over the last few years.