Worried about ALS: Twitching & Pain

[angusglover]

For the last few days I have been twitching like mad, everywhere. The muscle in my elbow has been going mad. It is my right one, usually it is left!!!!I also have been getting some very strong absolutely excruciating pain in my right arm, down to my thumb. It comes and stays for a few hours, then goes.My hands feel stiff.....I am still worried that this could be ALS......I know I have had a clean EMG \ NCS, but this has to be something and it is drivingme mad.the Lyrica does not seem to be working, other than making me drousy!!!!!The stiffness in my hands and the jelly legs etc are really worrying me as it does not go, it is constant.....

 

[priorityhigh5]

Angus, you KNOW better.This is classic anxiety, fueling your BFS twitches. Nothing more.~*~Amy~*~

 

[twinTwosome]

I know I have had a clean EMG \ NCS, but this has to be something and it is drivingme mad.This part says it all. You are having anxiety over annoying symptoms. They are not related to anything deadly.

 

[TimThomas24]

Ditto to what the others have said. The jelly feeling...classic anxiety making the symptoms worse and different. I had a great week, worked out a bunch and felt great. Last night I go to bed and the twitching was just crazy, totally new ones too that I hadn't had in months (chin, butt, shoulder). I just kind of laughed it off since I was exercising well and had no cramps or aches for the first time in a while. There's no rhyme or reason to it. Its totally unpredictable. The only thing that is predictable is the anxiety flare up that occurs when the symptoms increase. Just got to stop worrying and tell yourself its just BFS.

 

[JeffTheGreat]

Do something you enjoy and get your mind off of it. Once you are able to do that you can rationally tell yourself that this thing actually does come and go, which is a really good sign that the symptoms are probably psychosomatic.

 

[TimThomas24]

I know that pattern only too well. Some little symptom, followed by worry, followed by worsening of the symptom and/or new symptoms. Its the anxiety snowball.

 

[priorityhigh5]

Or the anxiety mudslide...a snowball is too white & pure. I think everything in the world would be so much better without anxiety, I see no good that comes from it, so why the hell does it exsist?~*~Amy~*~

 

[FantasticFurball]

Oh - I almost didnt know you where an insurance-agent. Sorry. Ehhh-ahem... I just tried to explain the human nature of things. Its not you, its Darwin.... Ehh, you see-its not personal but I gotta go... run...