OK, so as the thread title says... what really is weakness?I had gone to a neuro (i dont think hes a nm specialist) about a month ago. I looked up his info on the web and of course it tells me he gets a 1/5 for all the patient confidence and bedside manner etc. (although again there were only 3 reviews)ANYWAY.So i've been trying to "get on with my life" after having my GP tell me there's nothing wrong with me and after having the neuro tell me that even if there was something wrong with me it wasn't neurological.My twitches seem to have calmed down. The myoclonic jerks i was getting seem to have either gone away or i'm not really noticing them anymore. the chills and bodyshaking episodes i was having - havnt had this since end of march. The fatigue is still present - i can't seem to wake up early and im still tired even when im awake. I dont get wiped out as easily as I was getting wiped out - 20 pushups doesnt put me out of commission. Also i have gone back to the gym a few times and have done arm/leg/chest/back exercises. I'm not at the level that I was in Feb, but I'm definitely much stronger than I was last April. (id say about 10% weaker than feb - for example my 1 rep max for bench press has gone down from 250 to 225).My main point of concern right now, aside from the general fatigue, are my forearms and hands. I had always thought my forearms were kinda shrimpy, and my left has always been smaller than the right (right is dominant and my left was broken back when i was 14 - it was in a cast for a while and when it came out it was wimpy). So over the past few months, i feel like my forearms get tired really easily. My pinky especially. I have been having pain in the muscles of my palms, and tightness/burning/tiredness in the forearms. The strange thing is i have almost IDENTICAL feelings in my pinky toe. It always feels like it wants to cramp up. If i move it around and squeeze it - it does. I have always had cramping problems with my feet though - at least for the past 10 years.With the fascics mostly gone (every so often i still get a beater here and there and I havn't had one in my forearm in about a month), I am not sure what to make of this. I still am not sleeping great - i wake up at all odd hours worried, look at the clock, notice somethign is numb (hands/fingers/leg) then adjust and pass out again.I dont know what to do - i just don't feel right and i have no more docs to turn to.This brings me to my question - is what im feeling in my arms weakness? at what point would it be weakness? After I went to the gym yesterday, my forearms were killing me and i couldn't lift anything, it was like they were made of rubber. I realize this was because i exerted them, but is this the type of feeling I would have 24/7 if i had weakness? 0r can weakness be transient.
What is Weakness?
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ok, sorry-I have to do this. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!Are you KIDDING? You are lifting 225 lbs and you are seriously asking us if this is weakness? Wow. I must be on death's door, then. If you have to ASK if it is weakness, it ISN'T weakness. If you can drink from a cup, dress and bathe yourself, and wipe your own behind, it isn't weakness. What you are describing sounds honestly like repetitive motion insult and soreness from being on the computer too much. When I first got bfs my forearms and hands got trashed for just that reason. Once I stopped sitting at the computer for hours on end, and modified my posture and position while ON the computer, my forearms and hands felt fine. And, of course, if you read "bfs in a nutshell," particularly the part about perceived weakness, you will see that this is also common. We THINK we are so weak that we can't function-yet we aren't weak in a clinical, measurable, objective sense. A neuro's version of weakness is FAR different from ours. He/she is actually testing for partial or total inability of the muscles to move and function. That, my friend, is clearly NOT on your list of worries today. You'll have to do better than that. Worry about whether you've trimmed your nose hairs recently, or if your breath is offensive, or if you should eat more fiber in your diet. 
Blessings, Sue
Blessings, Sue