Twitching After Medical Problems

[Aquaman882]

We sound a lot alike. I am 32, have been twitching for four months, and my twitching started after a series of medical problems last fall. The medical problems resolved but caused me worry excessively and I became obsessed with my health. My arms and legs started having burning patches that would come and go and bounce from place to place. I was afraid I had MS. My doctor thought it was just anxiety due to my getting slammed with one problem after another. He put me on Zoloft but I quit taking it after only 7 days because it made the burning worse and I couldn't sleep. I saw a neuro, who did an emg, and could find nothing wrong. Then the burning stopped and the twitching started, which made me worry about ALS. I have no weakness and feel pretty good physically. However, mentally, I'm a yo-yo . . . one minute I convince myself that the twitching is just anxiety and the next minute I am scared that I have ALS or some other neuro disease. I too just want to feel like my old self again. Stay strong and please know that you are not alone.

 

[KatherineKim]

you sound just like me.

This is going to be long so bear with me, folks. First off before all this my life was really the best it has ever been. Great kids, good marriage, house in the 'burbs, etc.

First I have to give a little background. I had had a few days where I had felt achey. Almost like I was coming down with something but then it would go away. It was very fleeting.

Flash forward. One day, I am sitting waiting for my daughter to get her haircut and I read an article about Pam Anderson and hepatitis C. It hit me like a lightening bolt that I had a long term ex boyfriend (14 years ago) who had liver problems and always had to have his liver functions tested.

The article had a little table that displayed symptoms of Hep C and muscle aches was one of them. Never mind that I didn't even knw if Hep C is what he had, never mind that I had never come into contact with his blood, never mind the fact that I had none of the major symptoms of Hep C. I was sure I had it.

So, I am out of my mind with stress. I am thinking that there is a chance I may have passed this scourge on to my husband and children. I am barely sleeping, barely eating.

I finally get up the nerve to go get tested. I get tested, the test is negative but she tells me I have this thing called a "positive low titer ANA" and to come back in a month to see if it still remains positive and if so she will refer me to a rheumatologist.

I feel better for about a day. I get on the internet and look up positive ANA's. Well, now I am learning about the wonderful world of autoimmune diseases. Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, etc, etc.

Back into panic mode, but not quite so severe because I am not worried so much about my kids.

At this point, I start waking in the middle of the night with, like, a burning sensation on the fronts of my ankles. Then I would start getting a burning sensation with the slightest bit of exertion (I was a runner and worked out) on the fronts of my quads. Then I would have days where my feet just felt like I had hiked the Himalayas barefoot. And I started getting fleeting muscle twitches.

And about two months later, I am still having these weird symptoms. All neuro tests, so far, normal.

I think something was going wrong before I read the article, and I think the stress certainly did and does not help. But, I don't think it is entirely stress.

Kim

 

[KatherineKim]

you sound just like me.

This is going to be long so bear with me, folks. First off before all this my life was really the best it has ever been. Great kids, good marriage, house in the 'burbs, etc.

First I have to give a little background. I had had a few days where I had felt achey. Almost like I was coming down with something but then it would go away. It was very fleeting.

Flash forward. One day, I am sitting waiting for my daughter to get her haircut and I read an article about Pam Anderson and hepatitis C. It hit me like a lightening bolt that I had a long term ex boyfriend (14 years ago) who had liver problems and always had to have his liver functions tested.

The article had a little table that displayed symptoms of Hep C and muscle aches was one of them. Never mind that I didn't even knw if Hep C is what he had, never mind that I had never come into contact with his blood, never mind the fact that I had none of the major symptoms of Hep C. I was sure I had it.

So, I am out of my mind with stress. I am thinking that there is a chance I may have passed this scourge on to my husband and children. I am barely sleeping, barely eating.

I finally get up the nerve to go get tested. I get tested, the test is negative but she tells me I have this thing called a "positive low titer ANA" and to come back in a month to see if it still remains positive and if so she will refer me to a rheumatologist.

I feel better for about a day. I get on the internet and look up positive ANA's. Well, now I am learning about the wonderful world of autoimmune diseases. Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, etc, etc.

Back into panic mode, but not quite so severe because I am not worried so much about my kids.

At this point, I start waking in the middle of the night with, like, a burning sensation on the fronts of my ankles. Then I would start getting a burning sensation with the slightest bit of exertion (I was a runner and worked out) on the fronts of my quads. Then I would have days where my feet just felt like I had hiked the Himalayas barefoot. And I started getting fleeting muscle twitches.

And about two months later, I am still having these weird symptoms. All neuro tests, so far, normal.

I think something was going wrong before I read the article, and I think the stress certainly did and does not help. But, I don't think it is entirely stress.

Kim