elelegido
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I am a 43 year old male. Five months ago body - wide fasciculations started. The would mainly be in my biceps and calfs but would happen in almost every part of my body - soles of the feet, abdomen, back, lips, eyelids, arms, fingers etc. I still have fasciculations, and since they started I have also started to have other symptoms such as:
Progressive muscle weakness - started in the arms and shoulders and now has spread to my legs. Even very light exertion causes the limb doing the exercise to vibrate or shake, in the same way that the muscles shake in a healthy person when they are using every last drop of strength that they have to lift something. I am at the point now where if I stand for more than a minute or two my legs will vibrate/shake and I want to sit down. If I lift a liter bottle of water my arm and hands will shake after a few seconds. I also have intention tremor in both hands. And I have started to drop things.
Exercise intolerance - this came with the weakness. I wanted to see how much strength I had in my upper body so I thought I would see how many press-ups I could do. I could manage to do only two. But what I also found was that all the upper body muscles involved (arms and shoulders, both sides) ached for three whole days afterwards, as if I had done a massive upper body workout at the gym. Yesterday I took my four year old to the park. All I did was carry her for a few minutes and walk around for half an hour - this morning I woke up to very sore arms, shoulders and calfs.
I also have balance issues - it is now difficult to walk in a straight line without drifting to the left or right as if I was drunk. I noticed that I drag my right heel - the back edge of the right heel of the shoe is ground down; the left heel is not worn down.
I have seen a doctor who said that I have no knee jerk response at all and very weak deep tendon reflexes in the arms. Also, no Babinski response - my toes do nothing in the test, neither fanning out nor curling under.
All of this seems to point to lower motor neuron issues. Has anyone here had similar symptoms and if so what were you diagnosed with please?
Progressive muscle weakness - started in the arms and shoulders and now has spread to my legs. Even very light exertion causes the limb doing the exercise to vibrate or shake, in the same way that the muscles shake in a healthy person when they are using every last drop of strength that they have to lift something. I am at the point now where if I stand for more than a minute or two my legs will vibrate/shake and I want to sit down. If I lift a liter bottle of water my arm and hands will shake after a few seconds. I also have intention tremor in both hands. And I have started to drop things.
Exercise intolerance - this came with the weakness. I wanted to see how much strength I had in my upper body so I thought I would see how many press-ups I could do. I could manage to do only two. But what I also found was that all the upper body muscles involved (arms and shoulders, both sides) ached for three whole days afterwards, as if I had done a massive upper body workout at the gym. Yesterday I took my four year old to the park. All I did was carry her for a few minutes and walk around for half an hour - this morning I woke up to very sore arms, shoulders and calfs.
I also have balance issues - it is now difficult to walk in a straight line without drifting to the left or right as if I was drunk. I noticed that I drag my right heel - the back edge of the right heel of the shoe is ground down; the left heel is not worn down.
I have seen a doctor who said that I have no knee jerk response at all and very weak deep tendon reflexes in the arms. Also, no Babinski response - my toes do nothing in the test, neither fanning out nor curling under.
All of this seems to point to lower motor neuron issues. Has anyone here had similar symptoms and if so what were you diagnosed with please?