TheDocta
Member
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2012
- Messages
- 12
- Reason
- Learn about ALS
- Country
- US
- State
- FL
- City
- Orlando
Hello to all. First off I would like to say that the work you people do on this forum is amazing. The people with and without ALS. I have learned so much about this disease over the last few weeks and I really think you people have an amazing community of caring people.
Here is a little background about why I am here. About 2 and a half months ago I was laying at the pool. All was well. I looked at my leg and noticed these twitches. They were all over my calf muscles and looked as if something was jumping around in there. I googled "calf muscle twitching" and boom, you guessed it, ALS was the first thing to pop up. As I read more about the disease I got concerned but not too worried.
Here I am almost 3 months later and both calf muscle's have been twitching and jumping pretty much non stop. I am now more concerned. I have other symptoms like weakness and a lump in my throat but I feel the line between a real symptom and something in my head is very fine at the moment since I have read all the symptoms and am a bit nervous.
I think I am so scared because in 2008 I was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer. I had always been a bit of a hypochondriac, but thinking you have cancer due to symptoms you read online and then finding out you were right was not a good thing for me. Thank God today I am 100% healthy after a tough chemotherapy regimen. Today I am 29, and relatively healthy, except for the calf twitching, fatigue, and overall "muscle weakness".
Just for the record I have successfully done everything in this article two weeks ago.
Muscle Twitching Help: Foot Drop Strength Test for ALS - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com
I apologize so much if I am wasting anyones time here. Just wanted to see if I could get a word of advice. Should I go back to living my life and put the constant muscle twitching and jumping behind me, or should I go to my doctor and have it looked at.
Thanks.
Here is a little background about why I am here. About 2 and a half months ago I was laying at the pool. All was well. I looked at my leg and noticed these twitches. They were all over my calf muscles and looked as if something was jumping around in there. I googled "calf muscle twitching" and boom, you guessed it, ALS was the first thing to pop up. As I read more about the disease I got concerned but not too worried.
Here I am almost 3 months later and both calf muscle's have been twitching and jumping pretty much non stop. I am now more concerned. I have other symptoms like weakness and a lump in my throat but I feel the line between a real symptom and something in my head is very fine at the moment since I have read all the symptoms and am a bit nervous.
I think I am so scared because in 2008 I was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer. I had always been a bit of a hypochondriac, but thinking you have cancer due to symptoms you read online and then finding out you were right was not a good thing for me. Thank God today I am 100% healthy after a tough chemotherapy regimen. Today I am 29, and relatively healthy, except for the calf twitching, fatigue, and overall "muscle weakness".
Just for the record I have successfully done everything in this article two weeks ago.
Muscle Twitching Help: Foot Drop Strength Test for ALS - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com
I apologize so much if I am wasting anyones time here. Just wanted to see if I could get a word of advice. Should I go back to living my life and put the constant muscle twitching and jumping behind me, or should I go to my doctor and have it looked at.
Thanks.