yaumno
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- 03/2013
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Hello everyone,
My name is Spencer. About 10 months ago I suffered an electrical shock from a damp light switch in my apartment (110v, 15 amps). Since then I have been experiencing alarming neurological symptoms that I think may be the beginning of MND or an ALS-like syndrome.
I apologize in advance for the length of this message but if you could take the time to read and respond then I would be very grateful indeed.
Immediately after the shock I had decreased pinprick sensation and some numbness/tingling in my right forearm and hand. I also had a great deal of pain running along the nerves in both of my arms, particularly underneath the bicep and along my forearm. The numbness and tingling in my right forearm and hand resolved within a day or two. The pain remained for 3-4 months but is now minimal.
Within a week of the shock I developed an extremely enhanced physiological tremor that makes all of my muscles shake and jiggle when they are used. It's very hard to live with this as it affects all of my actions and the movements are not smooth. This symptom is common to people on the aboutbfs.com website (benign fasciculation syndrome) which makes me think that it could be related to anxiety. My fingers and arms are also quite shaky when held in a fixed position as if the normal fine tremors that everyone experiences have become exaggerated.
These symptoms have remained consistent since the shock but within the last few months I have developed new and very worrisome symptoms.
Over the last few months I have been having increasingly powerful and frequent fasciculations. These started a few months after the electrical shock but they have been getting worse and worse since then. What disturbs me the most is that they are especially frequent and intense in my right arm - the one that sustained the shock. This association between the location of the shock and the location of the most intense/frequent fasciculations makes me really worried that the twitching is a direct result of the electrical accident.
Further, about 4 months after the shock I began to feel that my right hand was "different," "stiff," or "heavy." This stayed mild for a while but in the last few months and weeks it has gotten more and more pronounced. Right now it is pretty bad - my right hand feels clumsy and weak all of the time. I don't see any visible muscle wasting and I don't have any true objective loss of strength but something is definitely very wrong. When I use my fingers they feel as if they will fail under the pressure I apply to them. However I can still push on the end of my fingertips and hold them up against a lot of force.
I am also having very noticeable tingling in my right forearm and my right calf. It is very stable and doesn't come and go under different circumstances. However, I don't have any loss of skin sensation or numbness.
Within the last two weeks I have been having really bad muscle cramping in my right calf and right hand and forearm. It occurs pretty consistently and is quite painful. If I stretch of massage the muscle I can get it to go away but it returns quickly. The muscle cramping is especially frightening because it is a new development.
I had an EMG test performed 45 days and 6 months after my electric shock and they returned normal results. I also had a cervical spine MRI, an SEP, and EEG test - all of which returned normal results. I just can't shake the feeling that my condition is deteriorating and that these symptoms seem an awful lot like the beginnings of MND - something that is documented to have happened following electric shocks.
If you have any thoughts, comments, suggestions, or questions then please let me know. It's very hard to deal with this while not having a diagnosis or even any evidence of dysfunction. If this is the beginning of a degenerative process then I would like to attempt some treatment to halt the progression if possible.
Sincerely,
Spencer
My name is Spencer. About 10 months ago I suffered an electrical shock from a damp light switch in my apartment (110v, 15 amps). Since then I have been experiencing alarming neurological symptoms that I think may be the beginning of MND or an ALS-like syndrome.
I apologize in advance for the length of this message but if you could take the time to read and respond then I would be very grateful indeed.
Immediately after the shock I had decreased pinprick sensation and some numbness/tingling in my right forearm and hand. I also had a great deal of pain running along the nerves in both of my arms, particularly underneath the bicep and along my forearm. The numbness and tingling in my right forearm and hand resolved within a day or two. The pain remained for 3-4 months but is now minimal.
Within a week of the shock I developed an extremely enhanced physiological tremor that makes all of my muscles shake and jiggle when they are used. It's very hard to live with this as it affects all of my actions and the movements are not smooth. This symptom is common to people on the aboutbfs.com website (benign fasciculation syndrome) which makes me think that it could be related to anxiety. My fingers and arms are also quite shaky when held in a fixed position as if the normal fine tremors that everyone experiences have become exaggerated.
These symptoms have remained consistent since the shock but within the last few months I have developed new and very worrisome symptoms.
Over the last few months I have been having increasingly powerful and frequent fasciculations. These started a few months after the electrical shock but they have been getting worse and worse since then. What disturbs me the most is that they are especially frequent and intense in my right arm - the one that sustained the shock. This association between the location of the shock and the location of the most intense/frequent fasciculations makes me really worried that the twitching is a direct result of the electrical accident.
Further, about 4 months after the shock I began to feel that my right hand was "different," "stiff," or "heavy." This stayed mild for a while but in the last few months and weeks it has gotten more and more pronounced. Right now it is pretty bad - my right hand feels clumsy and weak all of the time. I don't see any visible muscle wasting and I don't have any true objective loss of strength but something is definitely very wrong. When I use my fingers they feel as if they will fail under the pressure I apply to them. However I can still push on the end of my fingertips and hold them up against a lot of force.
I am also having very noticeable tingling in my right forearm and my right calf. It is very stable and doesn't come and go under different circumstances. However, I don't have any loss of skin sensation or numbness.
Within the last two weeks I have been having really bad muscle cramping in my right calf and right hand and forearm. It occurs pretty consistently and is quite painful. If I stretch of massage the muscle I can get it to go away but it returns quickly. The muscle cramping is especially frightening because it is a new development.
I had an EMG test performed 45 days and 6 months after my electric shock and they returned normal results. I also had a cervical spine MRI, an SEP, and EEG test - all of which returned normal results. I just can't shake the feeling that my condition is deteriorating and that these symptoms seem an awful lot like the beginnings of MND - something that is documented to have happened following electric shocks.
If you have any thoughts, comments, suggestions, or questions then please let me know. It's very hard to deal with this while not having a diagnosis or even any evidence of dysfunction. If this is the beginning of a degenerative process then I would like to attempt some treatment to halt the progression if possible.
Sincerely,
Spencer