DanielleD
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Hello,
Thank you all so much for the time and effort you put into answering questions from those of us who are simply afraid.
I will preface this by saying I do have an upcoming consultation with a neurologist and also that my husband is an orthopedic surgeon.
I am a 41 year old female. I am 5 foot 6 and 109 pounds so I am slight and athletic.
I also do have medical anxiety to be perfectly honest , But I am experiencing physical symptoms. While my husband has tried to reassure me that he thinks I’m fine I’m pretty sure he would tell me anything to get me to calm down. He does not see or feel any weakness when he looks at my upper body which is where I am experiencing the bulk of my symptoms.
So what I have noticed definitely starts with the pins and needles tight feeling in my hand all the way up my arm. Originally I thought it may be cell phone elbow or ulnar nerve entrapment or possible a combo of carpal and cubital tunnel.
I notice The pins and needles and tingling mostly at night but sometimes during the day. Also a little pain in my elbow but what concerns me about ALS the most is a feeling of weakness in my forearm. Sometimes the feeling of weakness also radiates up my arm towards my shoulder. My arm feels very heavy and waited down like I am trying to punch through water and the pins and needles are maddening when I’m trying to sleep no matter what position I put my body in. Massage tends to make it feel a little bit better. my left arm just doesn’t feel like it used to. I still have a grip that doesn’t seem to be changed and my husband says he doesn’t feel any weakness when he does his version of an upper motor neuron exam.
My question is does ALS often include the obvious pins and needles feeling which tends to go away with movement? I also feel as though I have weakness but I can still lift things... so I’m trying to wrap my head around perceived weakness versus actual clinical weakness and also trying to think of what else this could possibly be. I’m sure I’m driving myself crazy and my anxiety is making it worse. In general my arm just feels very tired which is odd for me because I am quite athletic and I can’t think of anything I’ve done recently to exacerbate it. This is been going on for at least three weeks.
Sometimes I read that pins and needles is not associated with ALS and sometimes I read that it is,
Thank you much.
Thank you all so much for the time and effort you put into answering questions from those of us who are simply afraid.
I will preface this by saying I do have an upcoming consultation with a neurologist and also that my husband is an orthopedic surgeon.
I am a 41 year old female. I am 5 foot 6 and 109 pounds so I am slight and athletic.
I also do have medical anxiety to be perfectly honest , But I am experiencing physical symptoms. While my husband has tried to reassure me that he thinks I’m fine I’m pretty sure he would tell me anything to get me to calm down. He does not see or feel any weakness when he looks at my upper body which is where I am experiencing the bulk of my symptoms.
So what I have noticed definitely starts with the pins and needles tight feeling in my hand all the way up my arm. Originally I thought it may be cell phone elbow or ulnar nerve entrapment or possible a combo of carpal and cubital tunnel.
I notice The pins and needles and tingling mostly at night but sometimes during the day. Also a little pain in my elbow but what concerns me about ALS the most is a feeling of weakness in my forearm. Sometimes the feeling of weakness also radiates up my arm towards my shoulder. My arm feels very heavy and waited down like I am trying to punch through water and the pins and needles are maddening when I’m trying to sleep no matter what position I put my body in. Massage tends to make it feel a little bit better. my left arm just doesn’t feel like it used to. I still have a grip that doesn’t seem to be changed and my husband says he doesn’t feel any weakness when he does his version of an upper motor neuron exam.
My question is does ALS often include the obvious pins and needles feeling which tends to go away with movement? I also feel as though I have weakness but I can still lift things... so I’m trying to wrap my head around perceived weakness versus actual clinical weakness and also trying to think of what else this could possibly be. I’m sure I’m driving myself crazy and my anxiety is making it worse. In general my arm just feels very tired which is odd for me because I am quite athletic and I can’t think of anything I’ve done recently to exacerbate it. This is been going on for at least three weeks.
Sometimes I read that pins and needles is not associated with ALS and sometimes I read that it is,
Thank you much.
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