Jessxwolf
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Hello everyone. I am new to this forum and site. First, I just want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with everyone who’s life has been touched in any way by this horrible disease.
My 66 yr old father was recently diagnosed with ALS in April 2018. We don’t know of any other family members that have had the disease. I don’t know if he has any type of genetic mutation. Needless to say, this has been an immensely stressful time in our lives. This is where my own strange symptoms begin...
A couple of weeks after finding out about my dad’s diagnosis, I went to lift my right arm to take a drink out of a cup and it felt hard to hold my arm up in the area of my inside elbow. This feeling came out of nowhere and I had never had any thing like this occur before. The feeling went away over night but the next day the inside of my elbow was very sore for about a day. My arm returned to normal.
A couple a days later, a twitch developed in the same arm in my shoulder and would stop intermittently. Along with this came a sensation of internal trembling in my arm. This twitching/tremble continued for about a week and suddenly started affecting my left arm. I also at times had feelings of burning on the inside of both elbows and when doing certain tasks like typing on my phone or computer my arms would start to feel extremely irritated.
This continued for about 3 weeks then suddenly stopped and disappeared. All good for a few weeks then the same symptoms returned in my right arm.
This has continued on and off for the last couple of months. Some days my arm feels completely normal and some days the symptoms return. Today, the symptoms have returned in my left arm as well. Now, both arms are feeling extremely irritated after working on my computer this morning.
I know I am stressed out and my anxiety level is high since my dad’s diagnosis but this is terrifying me. Because of his diagnosis, I am so afraid of what these symptoms could be. Your thoughts?
My 66 yr old father was recently diagnosed with ALS in April 2018. We don’t know of any other family members that have had the disease. I don’t know if he has any type of genetic mutation. Needless to say, this has been an immensely stressful time in our lives. This is where my own strange symptoms begin...
A couple of weeks after finding out about my dad’s diagnosis, I went to lift my right arm to take a drink out of a cup and it felt hard to hold my arm up in the area of my inside elbow. This feeling came out of nowhere and I had never had any thing like this occur before. The feeling went away over night but the next day the inside of my elbow was very sore for about a day. My arm returned to normal.
A couple a days later, a twitch developed in the same arm in my shoulder and would stop intermittently. Along with this came a sensation of internal trembling in my arm. This twitching/tremble continued for about a week and suddenly started affecting my left arm. I also at times had feelings of burning on the inside of both elbows and when doing certain tasks like typing on my phone or computer my arms would start to feel extremely irritated.
This continued for about 3 weeks then suddenly stopped and disappeared. All good for a few weeks then the same symptoms returned in my right arm.
This has continued on and off for the last couple of months. Some days my arm feels completely normal and some days the symptoms return. Today, the symptoms have returned in my left arm as well. Now, both arms are feeling extremely irritated after working on my computer this morning.
I know I am stressed out and my anxiety level is high since my dad’s diagnosis but this is terrifying me. Because of his diagnosis, I am so afraid of what these symptoms could be. Your thoughts?
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