jik992003
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Hi everyone, first let me say my thoughts and prayers are with everyone here. It has been a very hard week for my wife and I. I have found information, hope and comfort from reading posts on this website.
I am a 37 year old male of asian decent and have been having some noticable muscle weakness since February 2009. I just chalked it up to inactivity for the past few years. As I have 6 yearold and 3 yearold daughters and a pregnant wife keeping me busy. I would consider myself a pretty healthy and fit person. Who use to lift alot of weights and was able to run 10-20 klms up to 2 years ago.
So I decide to start working out taking supplements such as creatine, glutamine and protein shakes. But I started noticing I was getting weaker and over the next few months I was getting skinnier and losing weight.
My wife commented on how she was noticing how skinny I looked. I was 160lbs in January 2009 and today way 143lbs.
I decided to see the doctor 3 weeks ago as I have experienced a very fast amount muscle loss and weakness and weight loss in the last month or so.
I am having extreme difficulty going up stairs and carrying my children. My strength is not there. My leg muscles or quadriceps are getting so weak I have also had shoulder pain for a while now . the shoulde pain used to be just in the morning when I woke up so I thought it might be my pillow, sleeping position or even bed. But now it hurts all day. With little relief from tylenol or advil. Another thing that I have noticed is that maybe in the last 3 weeks I have had a bit of problem getting solid food down or should I say clearing my throat completely. No problems with liquids. Just a little bit of what I'm chewing gets caught in my throat which is easily put down with a drink. I feel like I'm also getting short of breath easily also.
Alarming news when I got my ck results back from recent bloodwork. They were 12,000. Which I was told indicated muscle damage or disease so my gp referred me to a rheumotologist and for and Emg test with neurology consult. Emg test is in 3 days.
I am not experiencing any twitching or atrophy in my hands or feet. The atrophy or muscle loss is in my upper body, shoulders back, chest, arms and legs. And neck. Everyone can tell I have lost weight.
To say the least my wife and I are very anxious as I am sure you all are. I was just hoping that some memeber with more knowledge and experience might be able to shed
some light on my symptoms.
I'm praying for good or clean results from my EMG test.
Thank you again for reading. Look forward to reading your replies.
I am a 37 year old male of asian decent and have been having some noticable muscle weakness since February 2009. I just chalked it up to inactivity for the past few years. As I have 6 yearold and 3 yearold daughters and a pregnant wife keeping me busy. I would consider myself a pretty healthy and fit person. Who use to lift alot of weights and was able to run 10-20 klms up to 2 years ago.
So I decide to start working out taking supplements such as creatine, glutamine and protein shakes. But I started noticing I was getting weaker and over the next few months I was getting skinnier and losing weight.
My wife commented on how she was noticing how skinny I looked. I was 160lbs in January 2009 and today way 143lbs.
I decided to see the doctor 3 weeks ago as I have experienced a very fast amount muscle loss and weakness and weight loss in the last month or so.
I am having extreme difficulty going up stairs and carrying my children. My strength is not there. My leg muscles or quadriceps are getting so weak I have also had shoulder pain for a while now . the shoulde pain used to be just in the morning when I woke up so I thought it might be my pillow, sleeping position or even bed. But now it hurts all day. With little relief from tylenol or advil. Another thing that I have noticed is that maybe in the last 3 weeks I have had a bit of problem getting solid food down or should I say clearing my throat completely. No problems with liquids. Just a little bit of what I'm chewing gets caught in my throat which is easily put down with a drink. I feel like I'm also getting short of breath easily also.
Alarming news when I got my ck results back from recent bloodwork. They were 12,000. Which I was told indicated muscle damage or disease so my gp referred me to a rheumotologist and for and Emg test with neurology consult. Emg test is in 3 days.
I am not experiencing any twitching or atrophy in my hands or feet. The atrophy or muscle loss is in my upper body, shoulders back, chest, arms and legs. And neck. Everyone can tell I have lost weight.
To say the least my wife and I are very anxious as I am sure you all are. I was just hoping that some memeber with more knowledge and experience might be able to shed
some light on my symptoms.
I'm praying for good or clean results from my EMG test.
Thank you again for reading. Look forward to reading your replies.