CoreyMcIntyre06
Member
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2011
- Messages
- 22
- Reason
- Learn about ALS
- Country
- US
- State
- ga
- City
- atlanta
Hey guys, I'm 23 (I've read the statistics, I feel like me even coming here is slightly ridiculous) but none the less I'm trying to be proactive while waiting to go to the neuro. I've been having a lot of weird symptoms for awhile now and trying to figure out what the hell is going on with me, so I figured I'd come here with the few questions I did have and hope you could share your experiences. My first one is whats the difference between spasm, and fasciculation? I had small contractions at the base of my thumb for a time, but they seemed to have stopped a week or so ago, I've been reading a lot of your threads and it seems like had it been real spasms I would not be able to do a whole lot of anything with those muscle groups had the twitching stopped. The second question I guess will sound dumb but it's been hard for me to under stand, what it muscle weakness? I've been having odd feelings in two of my finger tips and pain on top of my hand, an noticing some perceived clumsiness. However when I went to the neuro to check for ms the doc tested muscle strength and said there was no issue, it's strange to me because the whole arm feels off and clumsier, like its not my own doesn't stop day to day function it's just really weird. Third question is what about pain? Like sore tender areas? Thanks for reading all of this, and any response would be great, I dunno...could just be nerve compression or something I do a lot of physically intensive stuff.