LawMan8003
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<LAWMAN: I started a new thread for you. --Mod>
I too read the "read before posting" thread and I know I'm a guest here. That said, I figured I'd post my symptoms in an established thread (hope you don't mind, OP) instead of cluttering up the board by creating a new one. I'm struggling with having possible symptoms of ALS.
24 year old white male. Starting about two months ago I started experiencing a lot of pain in arms, legs, and hips. Extremely sporadic pain. I would go to sleep, wake up in the middle of the night with excruciating pain in a limb , stay awake for hours, wake up the next day and the limb would feel fine. But then later that day, a different limb might go through the same pain. Rinse and repeat.
The pain subsided for about a month. Around that time I went to see a general practitioner who ran some tests and found that I may have a thyroid problem tthat caused my muscle and joint pains. I'm due to get another test done in February to see if I need to start medication for my thyroid.
However, I recently went to work out at the gym for the first time since last September and while it wasn't an awful work out for my first time back in while, my arms felt incredibly sore for about a week. I know it's not uncommon to be sore after the first work out in a while, but this felt like a different pain. Not the kind of good "weak" pain you get from working out. I haven't noticed any significant muscle atrophy.
The last week or so I've been experiencing mild pain in all of my limbs as well as very short twitches all over my body- my toes, my fingers, my legs, my arms, my abdomen, every where. Usually lasts less than a second. Probably happens on some part of my body every 20 minutes or so. I've noticed that sometimes they come in clusters, i.e., my hand will twitch for second and then immediately after that my foot will twitch also. I've also noticed that if I flex a muscle, twitches in that muscle are soon to follow. I've read that may be a sign of ALS.
I'm wondering if I have cause for concern for ALS or if this is something that is likely being caused by something else. Any advice would be greatly, greatly appreciated, but if no one feels like answering, I certainly understand.
I too read the "read before posting" thread and I know I'm a guest here. That said, I figured I'd post my symptoms in an established thread (hope you don't mind, OP) instead of cluttering up the board by creating a new one. I'm struggling with having possible symptoms of ALS.
24 year old white male. Starting about two months ago I started experiencing a lot of pain in arms, legs, and hips. Extremely sporadic pain. I would go to sleep, wake up in the middle of the night with excruciating pain in a limb , stay awake for hours, wake up the next day and the limb would feel fine. But then later that day, a different limb might go through the same pain. Rinse and repeat.
The pain subsided for about a month. Around that time I went to see a general practitioner who ran some tests and found that I may have a thyroid problem tthat caused my muscle and joint pains. I'm due to get another test done in February to see if I need to start medication for my thyroid.
However, I recently went to work out at the gym for the first time since last September and while it wasn't an awful work out for my first time back in while, my arms felt incredibly sore for about a week. I know it's not uncommon to be sore after the first work out in a while, but this felt like a different pain. Not the kind of good "weak" pain you get from working out. I haven't noticed any significant muscle atrophy.
The last week or so I've been experiencing mild pain in all of my limbs as well as very short twitches all over my body- my toes, my fingers, my legs, my arms, my abdomen, every where. Usually lasts less than a second. Probably happens on some part of my body every 20 minutes or so. I've noticed that sometimes they come in clusters, i.e., my hand will twitch for second and then immediately after that my foot will twitch also. I've also noticed that if I flex a muscle, twitches in that muscle are soon to follow. I've read that may be a sign of ALS.
I'm wondering if I have cause for concern for ALS or if this is something that is likely being caused by something else. Any advice would be greatly, greatly appreciated, but if no one feels like answering, I certainly understand.
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