22 Year old Male Deathly Afraid that my Symptoms Match ALS

[dtes]

I hurt my neck 3 months ago weightlifting. I had a horrible sprain in which I couldnt turn my neck to the right. Besides that and tingling/tightness in my right arm, I was still okay. But after a month or so of nothing but neck pain, my body started taking a drastic turn. To this day, my neck still hasnt healed and now I have been having a LOT of muscle twitching EVERYWHERE as well as....this is the real scare...muscle WEAKNESS AND LOSS. I used to be a very athletic and strong 150lb gymgoer 3 months ago. Now I weigh 138lbs even though I eat nothing but fattening wholesome foods all day. My legs wobble when I walk and my arms always feel sore and weak. When I make movments, such as picking up a cup, my arm often jerks very subtly, like a tremor or hyperactive reflex. I feel myself getting weaker and weaker and weaker every day, and the mirror tells me that I am.

Still twitching, still feeling weak all over, and my neck is still horrible. Ive been to multiple doctors who tell me that I am crazy and a hypochondriac and thats its just anxiety. I did have an MRI of my neck, but I had the MRI long before I had the twitching/weakness/jerking/trembling. I also had some nerve testing done where neurologist strapped my fingers with tape to a machine and did something, but he said it was clean. (He didnt test anywhere else on my body and it was relatively quick)

Was that one simple nerve test enough to rule ALS out for me? I feel like unlike many others here, my symptoms match almost exactly, but Im so eager for somebody to tell me that it just isnt so.

[dtes]

My head also wobbles on my neck like a bobblehead a lot of times. I went from ripped and lean and muscular to weak and frail in just 3 months!

[GlenBrittle]

I hate to say this , but your doctor may have been correct.

Anxiety can cause all of those symptoms.

ALS doesnt wipe you out in three months, its more evil and creeps into your life over a much longer period of time.

Relax , see a doctor about that anxiety. You do not have ALS.

Glen

[hopingforcure]

Sounds like you had and NCS and most likely and EMG... Please understand the clinical exam is a BIG part of the ALS dx. sounds like you have not a worry of ALS. Please relax, clean clinical, twenty-three, clean testing, sound's nothing like ALS. NOTHING...

[dtes]

Although I want to be relieved by your responses, what can possibly be causing weak and wobbly muscles all over my body? Twitching sucks too, but evidently, thats not enough to be considered ALS. Considering that I eat a lot more than I did when I was weightlifting and that Im LOSING weight, there is obvious muscle loss. And I did injure my NECK, very close to the spinal cord. I never asked a single doctor about ALS, just "my symptoms".

Perhaps I had a mini -stroke by injuring the vessels in my neck? I didnt point out that I also feel very lightheaded and disorientated at times, like im getting no blood to the back of my head.

[joelc]

Pinched nerves are likely the problem. You do not have ALS.