Recent content by rmq00108

Thank you scaredwiftetx. In the last week or so I have started to have pain deep in my glute, down the back of me leg, and into the calf. It gets worse when I sit. It is bilateral, but is much worse on the left side, so I am a bit freaked out. I realize pain comes late in ALS, and I haven't lost...

I appreciate your time and feedback. I am truly grateful. It is a prison of sorts living with mental illness, and one you cannot seem to control. As noted I am working with CBT and meds, but as I said, the twitches are like little whispers of doubt. I am guessing after 10 weeks I would have seen...

So I am about eight to ten weeks into this, with fasciculations, mainly in the calfs, which started after I started exercising, but they haven't gone away and I do have some pain in the calfs. I also have the occasional one in my bicep, tricep, quad or back. However, they do stop for a couple...

So I went and saw an internist yesterday. He did a neuro workup, knowing I have severe anxiety. Not even close to hyperflexic, twitching is diffuse and bilateral, and moves around, goes away, comes back, etc., which is NOT ALS, especially without neuro signs that would have showed up on a neuro...

just curious, what is considered a hyperflexic knee jerk reaction. out of curiosity, and OCD I tried it bilateral and got the same reaction, which seemed "brisk", but without any clonus.

Sorry to ask, but I must. So I went for a bike ride 2 days ago, and immediately after my calves started twitching bilaterally,as did my quads, right around the back of my knees and sides of my calves. Heat makes it better. In reflecting on the sticky's and other "Dr. Google" feedback I have...