Hello everyone,
I'm Elise and I'm 32 years old. I've been having some strange things going on lately that I think maybe could be ALS onset.
About 2 years ago I started to have muscle twitches. First eyes, than calves, arms, back, chest. Really everywhere. At first I didn't think really much of it but because they increased and never stop I went to my local doctor. He said I was probably tired or low B12. I took vitamines but nothing helped.
Finally I looked up the muscle twitching for some possible explanations and I came up with ALS. I went back to te local doctor to express my concers for this. He didn't really know what ALS was and he said I could best go to a specialist in neuro muscular diseases.
Last month I went to a neuro muscular specialist in a clinic. He examined me. Doing test like walking on heels, stick out tongue, balance, strength , reflexes and so on.
My reflexes are very brisk and had a beat of ankle clonus he said. But he said that they see that a lot in young healthy people and did not think it was anything pathological. I expressed my worry about possible ALS but he said that nothing in my clinical examination pointed out in that direction. He saw no reason in more testing (like nerve test I guess) I went home relieved.
I have searched a bit on the internet about this and I notice that brisk reflexes, twitches, cramping and is part of ALS.
For the past weeks my right leg is hurting and sometimes I have the feeling I'm walking strange but family says that they don't see anything. It feels weird, maybe because I try to test clonus in my ankles myself and I hurt it?
Another thing is that my hands and arms and sometimes legs shake a lot lately. I must say I'm having anxiety over this and don't know if that can increase my symptoms.
Does this sound like ALS?
Elise x
I'm Elise and I'm 32 years old. I've been having some strange things going on lately that I think maybe could be ALS onset.
About 2 years ago I started to have muscle twitches. First eyes, than calves, arms, back, chest. Really everywhere. At first I didn't think really much of it but because they increased and never stop I went to my local doctor. He said I was probably tired or low B12. I took vitamines but nothing helped.
Finally I looked up the muscle twitching for some possible explanations and I came up with ALS. I went back to te local doctor to express my concers for this. He didn't really know what ALS was and he said I could best go to a specialist in neuro muscular diseases.
Last month I went to a neuro muscular specialist in a clinic. He examined me. Doing test like walking on heels, stick out tongue, balance, strength , reflexes and so on.
My reflexes are very brisk and had a beat of ankle clonus he said. But he said that they see that a lot in young healthy people and did not think it was anything pathological. I expressed my worry about possible ALS but he said that nothing in my clinical examination pointed out in that direction. He saw no reason in more testing (like nerve test I guess) I went home relieved.
I have searched a bit on the internet about this and I notice that brisk reflexes, twitches, cramping and is part of ALS.
For the past weeks my right leg is hurting and sometimes I have the feeling I'm walking strange but family says that they don't see anything. It feels weird, maybe because I try to test clonus in my ankles myself and I hurt it?
Another thing is that my hands and arms and sometimes legs shake a lot lately. I must say I'm having anxiety over this and don't know if that can increase my symptoms.
Does this sound like ALS?
Elise x