SadsackinCali
Member
- Joined
- Jan 1, 2013
- Messages
- 28
- Country
- US
- State
- California
- City
- Visalia
Since October I've been experiencing body wide muscle twitching. One night I was laying in bed and my L foot went crazy with twitching. By the next day, I noticed it in my R calf. Within weeks I had wide spread twitching throughout my body. Since then, I have had major pain in my legs when I do anything that stretches or causes my muscle to strain. I can still walk fine, although I have noticed that when I stand for a while or walk for long periods my legs hurt. Not like a sore muscle, but like a deep ache. I noticed this aching for the first time this last summer while swimming and then while walking on the beach. I didn't think much of it until the twitching started and then the pain.
I have been to my GP and had major blood work done, as well as to the ER for numbness on the L side of my face. At the ER they did a CT scan which came back normal. My GP has referred me to a neuro. who I will be seeing on January 8th.
The waiting is driving me crazy. It's worse then what I am physically going through. I have become obssesed with doing at home strength tests, which don't help 'cus I don't know what I'm looking for and make my legs hurt terrible the next day. I also have become obsessed with researching ALS on my computer, which doesn't help because all it does is scare the crap out of me. I feel like I have gone crazy in a period of 3 months. I have so much anxiety.
I am the mother of two boys and am terrified that I wont be able to see them grow up. How does anyone deal with the waiting...and then the knowing. This has been the worst trial of my life.
I have been to my GP and had major blood work done, as well as to the ER for numbness on the L side of my face. At the ER they did a CT scan which came back normal. My GP has referred me to a neuro. who I will be seeing on January 8th.
The waiting is driving me crazy. It's worse then what I am physically going through. I have become obssesed with doing at home strength tests, which don't help 'cus I don't know what I'm looking for and make my legs hurt terrible the next day. I also have become obsessed with researching ALS on my computer, which doesn't help because all it does is scare the crap out of me. I feel like I have gone crazy in a period of 3 months. I have so much anxiety.
I am the mother of two boys and am terrified that I wont be able to see them grow up. How does anyone deal with the waiting...and then the knowing. This has been the worst trial of my life.