I thought the comment at 27:40 was quite interesting.Basically he said that part of the nervous system is a "tuner," which filters out unnecessary sensations depending on the situation at hand. For example, a soldier who is in a life-threatening situation will have his tuner turned way down; he might be shot and not even know it. However, somebody who is very anxious or stressed (like many of us were before the onset of symptoms) will have their tuner turned way up. They'll feel everything, even sensations they never normally experienced even if they were happening.So... How possible is it that our health concerns (in my case reading about the symptoms of ALS) caused our tuner to stop filtering these little twitches that we may have been experiencing already?I know I haven't been here for too long, but I wonder if there are two types of people who suffer from BFS: 1) True BFS sufferers, who have widespread but completely benign fasciculations and 2) Nervous Nelly's like myself who began twitching because of stress and let this drive us into a cycle of health anxiety.Just a random thought at 12:50 AM on a Saturday... Er, now SUNDAY morning.
