Twitching Tongue Worries

[LovingMyBoys]

Ok so I am new and totally freaking out about my tongue. It twitches in 3 spots off and on, mostly on for over a month now. I am flipped out because on of the spots appears to be dented??? So if I stick my tongue out and smash my cheeks together a little bit it appears to be a small dent right where the twitching is. I can usually see it twitch a few times when I do this. I tried to show the doc and nuero but they said tongues are weird and didnt really seem concerned. Then when I let go and open my mouth, tongue relaxed I dont see the dent. I do know that thats where that little dent is though. Sometimes I do it and it dents and then pops back up a little. When I flex my tongue the muscle is smooth there, no dent. So my question is that because when I flex it there is no dent, does that mean theres no actual dent/wasting??? Because if flexed it looks smooth and even. I now I am going crazy and fed by anxiety, just really wanted some opinions on if it would be dented while flexed if it was muscle wasting??? My rational side had a theory that maybe that little nerve is so irritated from my self testing that it is always pulled a little tight and pulsing and I can just see it when a push my cheeks together...........would that make any since? My rational side says that it would be dented while the the muscle was flexed if the muslce was wasted...........however my irrational side is winning the battle :crying: I am waiting to get into a counselor on the 1st for my anxiety, until then here I am..................thanks!

 

[MovingLess]

If I stand on my head, lean a little the left and then slowly lift up to my fingertips it causes an aching in my wrist and finger joints, is this normal? I'm kidding of course, hoping to lighten your mood self testing is a sure fire way to jack yourself up, believe me I've been there and so have hundreds of others on this board. Read dents and atrophy. I for one have been lucky so far in that my toungue might be the only muscle I have that hasn't had fasics.

 

[mommyLDN]

If your tongue was atrophied anywhere, you would have already been having talking issues (sounding like a serious drunk when you talk), choking on your food, jaw wearing out after only chewing your food a couple of times, choking on thin liquids like water. All of these would imply clinical weakness with all these muscles. People find these kind of things wayyyyyyyy before atrophy kicks in, so you cant go backwards here ) I'm glad you are going to see a counsler, I hate to think you are feeling as bad as I did when all of this first started. But you have to listen to the advise you are given here. People here who have been here a while, know what they are talking about. Please try to relax and give your body a break. You'd be surprised at how much the symptoms go down once you have taken some of the anxiety out of the equation. ) Take CareRobynn )

 

[hCapitalize]

Well I recall when I was at my most obsessive about this and that is a long time back now, I even had an emergency Dr who observed that my tongue was twitching that he could not rule ALS out which was not what I wanted to hear, but hey I now know my tongue better than ever, it does have grooves and dents, and I suspect they had been there long before I started worrying about it. The thing to be considered a few years after I used to be posting a lot here, that it doesn't look any different to it did then, so I have to assume that it never was some perfect paradigm of what some anatomist might suppose what a tongue should be, but a real individual thing that inhabits my mouth, as individual in appearance as my appearance is in any other respect. What the problem is beyond BFS which is a real phenomenon, is that we can get obsessive and notice details we never paid attention to before. I do have clinical atrophy in my hands particularly my left, that has nothing to do with either BFS or ALS, but I am not worrying any more, there is no point to it, nor need, it's not uncommon and certainly isn't fatal, cos if it was I wouldn't be posting here now would I?

 

[neoKiti43]

Tongues are just strange looking to begin with, and I would never conclude anything based on a "dent" with my tongue because it ways changes. Twitching tongues are no fun, tho. I've had one since Oct 2009. Other posters are spot on: you would already have trouble talking, eating, swallowing, etc if your tongue was truly atrophying. Plus, I was told by person with ALS that you don't feel the twitches on your tongue with that disease.