muscle

Hello everybody, I have a question that I felt like couldn't be answered in the Stickies. For about 3 weeks I have had issues where I am walking, and if I do a quick turn on one leg, I stumble a bit. I have gotten out of bed at night to have my legs shake uncontrollably, or I stumble around the...

Thank you to everyone on here who donates their precious time to answering questions from strangers on the internet. I’ve read the stickies, and a significant amount of posts on here (and am moved by your patience and compassion). My question is: in your collective experience, whether personal...

Hi there – I am a 53 year old female and was recently diagnosed with MND, probably ALS, after two abnormal EMG’s in December. I have had blood work for the usual things (all negative) and MRI’s for the spine and brain (also negative). My only presenting functional issue is weakness in my...

Hi guys, I hope everyone is doing okay today. Since last September I have had extremely strange symptoms which have progressed. At the end of September 2018 I had a sudden onset of left muscle weakness and left arm muscle weakness. It wasn't gradual just happened one day. There was no less of...

Hello to everyone there fighting dificult times. I Am a 46 year old woman from Spain Who has some symptoms and has some doubts about if these could be of ALS. I Will try to tell you my story short so as not to bother you with boring details. In September 2017 I started having pain and...

Hello everyone, and sorry for my thread.It took me while to get the nerve to post here because i really think the best of you wonderfull people, but i am very freaked out. It all started 2 months ago when i got some fasciculation on my right upper leg.Since than, i started to have widebody...

Hi there, I've had daily, widespread muscle twitching for the past 5-6 years. I never thought anything about this and thus never even mentioned it to a doctor. Both of my calf muscles have been twitching more or less constantly for the past year (in addition to random twitches elsewhere in my...

Hello i posted on here a few weeks ago and since then i saw a neurologist regarding my concerning symptoms, would post in my old thread but its closed and i was wondering if i could ask some questions. Since my last post, the weakness (I will say perceived weakness for the time being as the...

Does Twitching in ALS stop on moving the muscle involved or it happens irrespective of the state muscle is in i.e in motion or in rest/relaxed position ? Also, do you retain the sensation when your muscle twitches during the course of the disease or your body loses the sensation to feel the...

Hey everyone. I've never posted on a forum before such as this one, although I've long been someone that often browses to see what others are going through and that people have to say. But I'm genuinely at my wits end and don't know how to cope any longer, so perhaps just discussing my issue a...