AussieSurvivor
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Okay, I am SO aware that this is going to sound like a broken record to some "oldies" on here...but I um, need some, um, reassurance..... 
) I have mentioned in earlier posts that I have had the bulk of my issues with my right side. Whatever happened when this all started settled in my right side mainly...I get twitches sometimes in my left side...I get consistent bottom twitches in both cheeks... ) but the pain part of this and perceived weakness is on the right. When this all started, I had ALL over body twitches, humming, crazy stuff. I know that some of you have had one side more effected than another. Where my concern is: I have definite lack of muscle mass on that arm. I have a "strange spot" above my bicep muscle...there is a similar marking on my left arm...just much more pronounced on the right...My neuro has seen it, said it is not that "common" but he was definite to say ALS was not where his mind went. He did an EMG (second one in year by him) and it was fine. Two days ago, I noticed while reading a book a pocket(indent) below that bicep now. I don't do body checks for dents....I just caught it out of the corner of my eye. I do have a similar marking, again, on the other arm...but with more muscle to it. If I flex, my right arm just doesn't have the "bulk" that the left arm does, my tricep is nice and firm on my left arm, it is just there on the right, and smaller....I do have family that has noted this to be true....I just wonder, do any of you notice this at all? I did do a search on the search engine...but it flags so many different random posts....it could take all night to read them! I do remember last August that being what brought me to tears....the smallness of that arm....so I am again not horribly alarmed by that.....it is just that dip that seems to be new. My Neuro told me to come back in six months which is in Dec. I really don't want to go in to show him this.....crazy as that sounds, it makes me more anxious than not to do that. I just really hoped to find some of you out there with maybe similar issues??!!?? I actually almost went to the google tonight...but thought better of it....no use in that. My neuro has said that he thinks I could have had a virus attack my nervous system when this all went down....which I do believe that there can be other things besides ALS/MS/MND/? whatever dangerous that can happen and have residual effects....Anyway, reaching out to the group tonight! First week in a long while that I have gone "there" again with all of this.....happens to the best of us. 
) I have mentioned in earlier posts that I have had the bulk of my issues with my right side. Whatever happened when this all started settled in my right side mainly...I get twitches sometimes in my left side...I get consistent bottom twitches in both cheeks... ) but the pain part of this and perceived weakness is on the right. When this all started, I had ALL over body twitches, humming, crazy stuff. I know that some of you have had one side more effected than another. Where my concern is: I have definite lack of muscle mass on that arm. I have a "strange spot" above my bicep muscle...there is a similar marking on my left arm...just much more pronounced on the right...My neuro has seen it, said it is not that "common" but he was definite to say ALS was not where his mind went. He did an EMG (second one in year by him) and it was fine. Two days ago, I noticed while reading a book a pocket(indent) below that bicep now. I don't do body checks for dents....I just caught it out of the corner of my eye. I do have a similar marking, again, on the other arm...but with more muscle to it. If I flex, my right arm just doesn't have the "bulk" that the left arm does, my tricep is nice and firm on my left arm, it is just there on the right, and smaller....I do have family that has noted this to be true....I just wonder, do any of you notice this at all? I did do a search on the search engine...but it flags so many different random posts....it could take all night to read them! I do remember last August that being what brought me to tears....the smallness of that arm....so I am again not horribly alarmed by that.....it is just that dip that seems to be new. My Neuro told me to come back in six months which is in Dec. I really don't want to go in to show him this.....crazy as that sounds, it makes me more anxious than not to do that. I just really hoped to find some of you out there with maybe similar issues??!!?? I actually almost went to the google tonight...but thought better of it....no use in that. My neuro has said that he thinks I could have had a virus attack my nervous system when this all went down....which I do believe that there can be other things besides ALS/MS/MND/? whatever dangerous that can happen and have residual effects....Anyway, reaching out to the group tonight! First week in a long while that I have gone "there" again with all of this.....happens to the best of us.