FreddieTheFox
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Could it be that you twitch for a year 24/7 in calves (like I do) than get arm and shoulders fascics (this week) and your arm gets weaker because it's *** ????
Twitching and Weakness: Cause or Effect?
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MarioMasher
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It's also possible that an airplane could fall out of the sky and land on your house.
FreddieTheFox
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If you are going to make fun out of me, don't answer! I'm really scared!!! So if I understand you this could be ALS
MarioMasher
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Your question is "could it be possible?" when it should be "Should I be worried about this?" The answer to the first one is "In medical history, I'm sure there has been at least one person who has overlapping symptoms that turns out to have both. So yes, there is always the slighest remote chance that any random person on the street could turn out to have both BFS and ALS."The answer to the second, and much more reasonable question is, "No. You don't fit the pattern."
Outlook1958
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FreddieTheFox, what do you mean when speaking of a weak arm? Take some object, for example a chair or something. So, can you pick it up and carry it with one arm and not with the other, no matter how hard you try? If yes, you might have some sort of real weakness in that arm... This however doesn't yet mean you have **S, it can have different reasons EVEN including BFS. If you can use your arm normally but you're still not sure wether it is real weakness for some reason, the only thing you can do is wait wether it gets worse or not. If it gets better, even for one day, **S can actually be excluded. Just give it a couple of weeks and see what happens... And do not overdo it with strengh testing, because actually you don't need it. If you had **S, you would very soon be unable to turn the keys in the lock, hold a coffee cup, brush your teeth, write, use the computer etc with that arm. You would notice it without strength testing.I have one more thing to calm you down: You said you have calf twitches and now they have started to affect your whole body, so you may think that they are spreading. Well, if you calf twitches were an early symptom of **S, your legs would be VERY weak or even immobilized before it spreads to other parts of the body. **S usually doesn't leave its work half-done before spreading further - and a whole year should have been more than enough then, as **S uses to progress much faster.Really, after one year you should actually start feeling better about the twitches. Most of the dangerous causes for muscle twitching can be ruled out after one year if you haven't got new symptoms during this time. Man, I wish I had already lived one whole year with twitching... I'm just 4 lousy months into it 
MarioMasher
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Oh man, I have gotten calf cramps for YEARS. I've been dealing with that sh*t for more than two decades. It's never enough to go on medication or see a doctor, but like once a month I'll just get a sudden, sharp and painful cramp in my calf as I'm sleeping, and I have to jump up out of bed and walk around the room to work it out. It is easily the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life.Obviously, since I've been dealing with that for 25 years, it has nothing to do with my BFS. Angst is right. Simultaneous symtoms don't necessarily mean correlational symptoms. Stuff can overlap.
daddyguy5828
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I liked the post about what your odds are of dying from different ailments / situations. However, the odds of dying from small pox is not zero... small pox stocks are still kept in 2 WHO reference labs, and I'm sure about a year ago a scientist showed it was possible to synthetically create small pox.
sailinglady
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FreddieTheFox You're still here !It was your "back from neuro" posts a year ago that helped me get myself together and start recovering from this horrible ALS anxiety. I'm sad its still consuming you.I have a suggestion in the best possible faith, you need to stop using this board. It becomes part of the circle of anxiety and reassurance seeking. You must have realized by now that no amount of reassurance from us or neurologists is going to help. You need to stop making your twitching the focus of your life. Stopping coming here will help you with that.Maybe you could do with some proper help. Probably CBT (a form of psychological therapy) would be much better value than seeing more neurologists.I sincerely hope you get over this. It must be hell for you, and most tragically, needlessly so. Get some professional help with it.All the best.