Twitching Hands and Feet Syndrome

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Crazybob123

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Hi Guys,
when i was driving with my partner back from dinner tonight i stopped at a traffic light under a florescent road light and saw the top of my hand twitching rapidly in all sorts of areas like worms under skin though i couldnt feel a thing. it was constant.

I have felt like the hairs on my hands and arms are always moving also. I have these twitches in my feet and calves also and had learnt to relax over them, now these hand twitches are the same as the arch ones and that scares the hell out of me. I have read that feet and calve twitches look like this not hand ones.

I am now back to thinking i have ALS for sure. I have been twitching in feet for 7.5 months now but this has reverted me to square one.

Please advise.

Robert
 
You have got to remember that twitching does not mean anything without weakness, Even twitching you can see but not feel, otherwise I am joining you with *LS for sure, in my case it would be the nasty bulbar onset variety, so I shall be underground before you are.
 
How about twitching you can feel but cannot see? Is that a sign to worry about?

I have this in my fingers and that scares me.


Luke
 
I think you need the right lighting or angle of lighting, plus the ability to discern rapid movement then you might catch it.

I actually saw the "buzz" in my leg as a very fine twitch. I think a lot of them are not as visible as they feel however, the fine ones anyway.
 
7.5 months with no weakness is a very good sign. Constant muscle movement is noted in Isaac's disease...Your twitches are not necessarily serious. My feet and calves have been doing this for over 2 years, Ginny 3, and others even longer. If you look at my feet you would say, "f739, this guy is dead for sure" but I have no other issues to speak of. I think you will be fine. Have you been checked out?
 
Hi,
i had a neuro exam at 2 months in which was ok, emg was suggested by one neuro but i declined it, another said dont bother.

This hand thing has freaked me out. I know you guys and me get this fine bubbling in feet and calves but this was on the top of my hand and i only saw it by chance under a fluorescent light while driving. If i hold my hand up to a normal light i cant see it.

I think im a goner, sorry to be morose but ive read all about this and never heard of this in the hand.
 
Oh man.
First: Your screen name, not your message, is morose! :) Geez! I hate to even look at it! (But it does express the depth of your worry, so I I certainly don't mean to trivialize it).
That said: The top of my hand has recently been twitching too, moving my middle finger back and forth, up and down. It will do 10-15 "pulsing" twitches (one about every second) and then stop for a while (anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour). I can see that little bugger right smack dab in the middle of the back of my left hand, in the divot just to the left of the tendon extending from the wrist to the middle finger. Neuro unimpressed.
Like you, I can only see it in certain light (especially flourescent...I think it's because they themselves flicker and make it more pronounced).
I'll take it as a blessing that I can't see it in all light. I try not to look...
 
HI,
thanks for that but these are in many different muscles in the top of the hand and really fast completely unfelt, like the bubbling in myclves, never heard of this before.

A/nyone?
 
Hi Robert,
In "BFS in a nutshell," it clearly states that the twitches we get can occur ANYWHERE, and they can be felt or not felt, seen, or not seen.

My husband had those wormy crawling sorts of twitches on his chest wall-talk about frightening. :eek:

At the time, he freaked out as well because it was a new location for him, but when he went back to the neuro, he was told as long as he has no clinical weakness, this is to be expected with bfs.

Lots of folks have posted about these types of twitches, all over their bodies. I get them on the underside of my hands and feet. No worries.

Blessings,
Sue
 
I disagree that you're going to kick it because your hand is twitching like crazy. You probably have isaac's syndrome (or maybe that's what we all have).



Also, were you gripping the steering wheel tightly? When this started for me I noticed the same thing but later figured out that my muscles were twitching from stabilizing pressure and not from any disease.

Since you have seen a neuro and have no associated weakness or atrophy it is very unlikely that you have a serious condition. Believe me, I know that statement is next to impossible to believe right now. I have felt and do feel the same fear.

Don't die on us just yet, okay? You will find that you will continue to live...

Mark
 
Just to say my hand ones started 2 years ago they are the same as my calves and feet and always there,you can only see them in a certain light.I had an emg on them, the last muscle to have the needle.He looked up at me a couple of minutes later and said "these are benign".
 

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