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    Please please help with my symptoms!!

    Hi all, I am so very hopeful that somebody can either put my mind at rest or give me the strength I need to really push my doctor for some more information. I am a 36 year old female. For the past few weeks I have noticed that I am having muscle twitching or "fasciculations' all over by body...
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    Progression over a year

    I have a closed thread about atrophy in my gastrocnemius. Here is my story until now. May of 2017, tore gastroc. At PT they thought it seemed neurologic and their hypothesis was that the tear was secondary to existing atrophy that I had not noticed. My toe taps on the affected leg were...
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    Very worried

    Hi, I am hoping you can help me figure out what is going on or not going on with me. I am a female, 47 years old. 4 months ago I started getting tingling in my feet and numbness in my calves, that progressed to muscle twitching all over my body and mild cramping in my calves over the next month...
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    Sore in mind and body

    Hi all Firstly, you are all incredible and the way you put up with the clinically anxious is astounding. I have over the last two years had significant health challenges, since developing severe Sepsis, which resulted in kidney and respiratory failure. Since that time I have undoubtedly...
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    Beside ourselves, please read.

    Hi All, I was wondering if you could give me your opinion on my husband. For about a year he was having issues with his back. He tried physical therapy and epidurals. Nothing seemed to help. Fast forward to a couple of months ago...we both started noticing him limping. He noticed that his...
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    Extensive medical workup; symptoms getting worse

    Hey there, I’d like to start by saying I appreciate those who are going through this illness and vigilant on these forums, as the comfort of having friends with same possible experiences is something that helps with my current fears. Here’s my last 3 months of hell: Male Age 29. Before...
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    Constant Body Wide Muscle Twitching + Weakness in opening fist

    Hello, First of all thank you for taking your time to open this thread. I am indebted to all of you and I wish for your health ! Before three months, I noticed some small twitching on my foot & other parts of body. They were indeed small and didn't vibrate that much such that it becomes very...
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    Common path? Dirty EMG, clean MRI, ALS clinic referral?

    I realize the answer is wait and see the dx, just wondering if I’m on a common path to a diagnosis that others have experienced? I have extreme left arm weakness (can’t lift), and increasing weakness in other limbs + fasciculations + fatigue. EMG by neuro found “active and chronic denervation”...
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    Terrified of ALS

    Hello everyone. My name is Efrain and I’m a 27 year old male. I’ve been reading these forums quite a bit recently and you guys have such a wonderful community here. I would really appreciate some advice on some of these symptoms I’ve been having recently. Back in June was when I first...
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    Couple of questions - hopefully not daft!

    Hi - and first off thanks for reading. I may be in the wrong place, but a potted history: a 49 year old man with no medical history, but twitching in a number of locations (mainly calves, foot-arches, upper arms, back and sometimes tongue) for c. 10 months. Had a neuro exam about 3 months...
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