miss91
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Hi Everyone,
I'm so scared to post on here because it makes my symptoms "real". Until one month ago, I was a healthy 36 year old married mom of three boys. Suddenly, I felt sick one day and had diarrhea and just an overall "fatigue", nausea, ill feeling. I lost 9 lbs. in about 2 weeks. I was given blood tests (all fine), and last week, a colonoscopy to rule out colon cancer. That came out fine as well.
Here I am, still feeling nauseous and exhausted, but in the last ten days, I've also developed:
Weak toes
Weak fingers on right hand with tiny tremor when trying to hold still
All over fasciculations, esp. in calves
My dominant leg LOOKS smaller at the ankle
I feel as though there's a lump in my throat, causing constant swallowing and it wakes me up at night
All-over muscle fatigue...some muscles shake when exerting effort.
I'm just terrified that these symptoms all came on so fast, in less than two weeks (although I've felt sick for a month). Yesterday I forced myself to go golfing with hubby - in spite of exhaustion, I wanted to live! - and today my arm is even weaker and sore.
Just wanted to tell you how fast everything came on....saw my GP last week for this - she didn't even look me over, but sent me for a brain MRI and told me she'd set me up with Neuro afterward. Very frustrating and scary how I could be a dancing fool at a wedding ONE MONTH ago and now I'm on the couch feeling depressed and scared of ALS.
M
I'm so scared to post on here because it makes my symptoms "real". Until one month ago, I was a healthy 36 year old married mom of three boys. Suddenly, I felt sick one day and had diarrhea and just an overall "fatigue", nausea, ill feeling. I lost 9 lbs. in about 2 weeks. I was given blood tests (all fine), and last week, a colonoscopy to rule out colon cancer. That came out fine as well.
Here I am, still feeling nauseous and exhausted, but in the last ten days, I've also developed:
Weak toes
Weak fingers on right hand with tiny tremor when trying to hold still
All over fasciculations, esp. in calves
My dominant leg LOOKS smaller at the ankle
I feel as though there's a lump in my throat, causing constant swallowing and it wakes me up at night
All-over muscle fatigue...some muscles shake when exerting effort.
I'm just terrified that these symptoms all came on so fast, in less than two weeks (although I've felt sick for a month). Yesterday I forced myself to go golfing with hubby - in spite of exhaustion, I wanted to live! - and today my arm is even weaker and sore.
Just wanted to tell you how fast everything came on....saw my GP last week for this - she didn't even look me over, but sent me for a brain MRI and told me she'd set me up with Neuro afterward. Very frustrating and scary how I could be a dancing fool at a wedding ONE MONTH ago and now I'm on the couch feeling depressed and scared of ALS.
M