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It's been awhile since I've posted a new thread on here. I've been too busy responding to other people's threads and trying to relieve their fears . . . and I'm also trying to stop worrying so much about my symptoms.
Well, this morning I woke-up with a new one: my thumb twitches inward toward my palm (it doesn't bend . . . just flexes at the joint where it meets the palm) from time to time. It also feels a bit stiff . . . all of this happened overnight. Yesterday, it felt just fine. I've looked at the thenar muscle very, very, very closely as it happens and I'm not seeing the muscle fasciculate at all (I've also looked at other muscles . . . including muscles in my forearm . . . and no fasics). My thumb simply moves/twitches. It also feels a little more uncomfortable right before it happens. It's not painful . . . but I know when it's about to move. Has anyone else experienced this? Those of you that have fasics in your hands: does it move your fingers and if so, can you see the fasics? Again, whatever is causing my thumb to move, isn't at all apparent to me.
For those of you that don't know, I started with symptoms just 2 months ago. I have mild weakness in my deltoid, biceps and forearms . . . with atrophy in all of those (I also have atrophy in my latissimus dorsi and some other back muscles). Initially I presented with weakness . . . followed by lots pain (it has since gotten better) . . . and then atrophy. The atrophy happened in less than a month . . . and I've lost about an 1 inch off of my upper arm (mainly biceps). Had normal MRI and clean EMG, although it was done less than a month after initial weakness (atrophy hadn't happened yet). So in less than 2 months, I have nearly my entire arm that has been affected . . . and now I'm getting a thumb twitch. I am now once again sick with worry.
P.S. One last thing: in all of my muscels that have atrophied, I don't really see any fasics at all. I do get fasics in other parts of my body from time to time, though . . . but not in my affected arm. Any thoughts?
Well, this morning I woke-up with a new one: my thumb twitches inward toward my palm (it doesn't bend . . . just flexes at the joint where it meets the palm) from time to time. It also feels a bit stiff . . . all of this happened overnight. Yesterday, it felt just fine. I've looked at the thenar muscle very, very, very closely as it happens and I'm not seeing the muscle fasciculate at all (I've also looked at other muscles . . . including muscles in my forearm . . . and no fasics). My thumb simply moves/twitches. It also feels a little more uncomfortable right before it happens. It's not painful . . . but I know when it's about to move. Has anyone else experienced this? Those of you that have fasics in your hands: does it move your fingers and if so, can you see the fasics? Again, whatever is causing my thumb to move, isn't at all apparent to me.
For those of you that don't know, I started with symptoms just 2 months ago. I have mild weakness in my deltoid, biceps and forearms . . . with atrophy in all of those (I also have atrophy in my latissimus dorsi and some other back muscles). Initially I presented with weakness . . . followed by lots pain (it has since gotten better) . . . and then atrophy. The atrophy happened in less than a month . . . and I've lost about an 1 inch off of my upper arm (mainly biceps). Had normal MRI and clean EMG, although it was done less than a month after initial weakness (atrophy hadn't happened yet). So in less than 2 months, I have nearly my entire arm that has been affected . . . and now I'm getting a thumb twitch. I am now once again sick with worry.
P.S. One last thing: in all of my muscels that have atrophied, I don't really see any fasics at all. I do get fasics in other parts of my body from time to time, though . . . but not in my affected arm. Any thoughts?