andyf30
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Hi guys, obviously I'm new here. I'll cut to the chase. I have been experiencing pretty strange neurological symptoms the last couple months and I was curious if anyone here could give me any guidance. I have pretty serious anxiety so be aware that I may be over reacting and exaggerating my symptoms in my own head, but I've gotten pretty good at separating the real symptoms from the mind exaggerated as I've gotten older.
I'm a 20 year old male, and I've always been an athlete with very large strong calves, quads, etc. I run track in college, but this summer I've noticed strange things going on with my body. It started with headaches and pain behind and above my eyes (around july), and slowly it has grown into an odd feeling of sort of always being off balance while standing, my vision will get sort of out of focus for periods of time, thinking clearly is difficult, and I'll feel very very tired. My muscles worry me the most. I havent tripped or anything, but they definitely (cue perceived vs clinical weakness argument here, I'm a biology student and learned about this last semester) feel weaker to me. My calves feel weaker and this past weekend I had trouble opening a beer bottle which with twist offs is usually a piece of cake for me. I havent been training much this summer as I picked up the decathlon this past season and wanted to rest. As a result, I sort of wrote it off as just normal muscle weakening due to less intense exercise. That being said, I have been noticing more twitches etc in my legs, and have spent a lot of time researching possible causes. I don't see any obvious atrophy but that could honestly be because of how large and defined my muscles were before coming off of track season.
The strangest part is, is that when I'm working out I feel normal. When I play basketball, or do my track workouts, or lift, I feel just as strong as always. In fact my squatting has improved this summer coming off of a back injury at the end of last season. I'm just worried as hell that these symptoms are just going to keep getting worse. I had an MRI and a CT scan on my head and nothing was there, and now I'm sort of in limbo not sure where to go or who to talk to. My mom keeps telling me I'm fine but I know when my body doesn't feel right and it's frustrating to seemingly have nobody listen to me. I'm seeing a second (first told me it was just migraines) neurologist tomorrow but I'm scared to bring up my worries with my mom there (home for the summer so she'll be coming along) as she'll just tell me I'm being ridiculous and write it off as usual. Any ideas or hints? Even if this isn't ALS (I know this is an ALS forum) I was hoping I could at least get some guidance as to how I should go about the visit with the neurologist tomorrow.
I'm a 20 year old male, and I've always been an athlete with very large strong calves, quads, etc. I run track in college, but this summer I've noticed strange things going on with my body. It started with headaches and pain behind and above my eyes (around july), and slowly it has grown into an odd feeling of sort of always being off balance while standing, my vision will get sort of out of focus for periods of time, thinking clearly is difficult, and I'll feel very very tired. My muscles worry me the most. I havent tripped or anything, but they definitely (cue perceived vs clinical weakness argument here, I'm a biology student and learned about this last semester) feel weaker to me. My calves feel weaker and this past weekend I had trouble opening a beer bottle which with twist offs is usually a piece of cake for me. I havent been training much this summer as I picked up the decathlon this past season and wanted to rest. As a result, I sort of wrote it off as just normal muscle weakening due to less intense exercise. That being said, I have been noticing more twitches etc in my legs, and have spent a lot of time researching possible causes. I don't see any obvious atrophy but that could honestly be because of how large and defined my muscles were before coming off of track season.
The strangest part is, is that when I'm working out I feel normal. When I play basketball, or do my track workouts, or lift, I feel just as strong as always. In fact my squatting has improved this summer coming off of a back injury at the end of last season. I'm just worried as hell that these symptoms are just going to keep getting worse. I had an MRI and a CT scan on my head and nothing was there, and now I'm sort of in limbo not sure where to go or who to talk to. My mom keeps telling me I'm fine but I know when my body doesn't feel right and it's frustrating to seemingly have nobody listen to me. I'm seeing a second (first told me it was just migraines) neurologist tomorrow but I'm scared to bring up my worries with my mom there (home for the summer so she'll be coming along) as she'll just tell me I'm being ridiculous and write it off as usual. Any ideas or hints? Even if this isn't ALS (I know this is an ALS forum) I was hoping I could at least get some guidance as to how I should go about the visit with the neurologist tomorrow.