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Hi all. I am new to the forum and first let me give you a brief description on how everything started.I am 25 years old and I moved across the country for Graduate school 10mo ago. I noticed a ridiculous amount of twitching about 2mo after I moved. After that it seems like every week their were new symptoms. A few months after the twitching started I noticed tingling in my hands and feet, which now has always been there since it started with an occasional "bug crawling" sensation on the side of my face. Also, I am ALWAYS taking deep breaths...if any of you have heard of the "air hunger" thing, that is exactly what it is like. Just recently I noticed a new kind of tingle, described as pulsating vibrations on the bottom of my feet as well as mild thumb and wrist tremors when in certain positions in both of my hands. Keep in mind I have never been an anxious person at all, actually quite the opposite. But since all this has happened I can't even count the number of times I've cried myself to sleep thinking that this is one of two bad neuro diseases (we all know which ones I'm talking about). My wife and I have been on rocky ground since I really started worrying about my health because I tend to shut everybody out. I've tested myself hundreds upon hundreds of times in fear of some sort of weakness anywhere on my body. I've had an MRI of brain/c-spine and everything was normal. All my blood work has came back normal. I had an EMG on my arms and that was normal (but he didn't do any EMG anywhere else?). The neuro I've been seeing keeps saying it's nothing except anxiety. I just have a hard time believing that anxiety is producing all these neuro-type symptoms that are in the spectrum of certain neuro diseases. Also, I asked my neuro about BFS and he said BFS usually doesn't present at my age, nor does it produce intermittent tingling, however most people on this board of tingling? What is everybody's thoughts?Thanks for reading.
 
BFS can present in ANY age really. GAD, one of the companion conditions/prerequisites, could be hidden and manifest at your age exactly (it happens in about of 2/3 of GAD people, rest are manifestation in early childhood as me, but I got BFS only in my forties...). Moving far away from home could be a huge stress enough to cause anxiety manifestation and therefore prepare a good soil for BFS."Every week to have a new symptome" is a perfect description of BFS. Your symptomes (air hunger, tremors, tingling) point straight to severe stress ( I had that for many years except tingling maybe wich came only with full scale BFS). Why stress should not make neurologocal issues? It can cause gastrointestinal troubles, sking diseases (neurodermatitis), it completely deregulates all hormonal systems of the body, so neural issues are just the same as other to be a symptom of stress.EMG is usually performed on upper limbs because at 25 your lower limbs neurones are already a bit worn and their axons are much longer than for upper limbs so thye might be non distinctive for testing of neuronal conductivity and response. Because ALS is a combined central and local disease, there is a possibility to reveal suspicious changes on all body muscles, whcih are even not disabled yet. So if your upper limb EMG is OK, than you are OK too.So consider your condition as real bout of general anxiety disorder and go and treat it - not the neurological condition - and you'd be fine.
 
I feel compelled to reply and tell you that an EMG can be done on any limb at any time, even if it has no presenting symptoms, and if you had the really bad neuro disease, it would show. You could have weakness in a finger and have an EMG of the foot and it would show disease. Clean EMG = No disease.
 

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