samb25
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Hello all my name is sam,
I am an 18 year old guy who has never had any serious health scares. For the past month and a half I have been to numerous doctors and I still have yet to be diagnosed. This whole thing started with sharp stabbing pains occurring throughout my body. These pains were quick and would come and go. Many times they occurred in my chest so I was given an ekg and a chest X-Ray. Both checked out normal. About a week after the tests had been run I started feeling very fatigued and my arms and legs both felt heavy. My doctor did a neurological exam and all checked out fine. I then saw another doctor who did a series of blood tests and has since checked me for lymes twice (negative both times) This weakness, continued for another two weeks along with some stiffness in my ankles, calves, and forearms. and I was still experiencing the sharp pains so my doctor sent me to do a brain ct scan. The ct scan showed nothing abnormal. In the past week since the brain scan the stiffness in my calves, and forearms has increased and I have started to get twitching constantly in my calves and sometimes in my forearms.
As I said this process has been going for about a month. This entire time I have been extremely stressed and worrysome. I am always looking on webmd, etc. for answers. The thing I am most worried about is the twitching in my calves and forearms. I am unsure if it stops, but when I move around the twitching is not noticable or much less noticable. Although my calves and forearms feel stiff I have no trouble walking, running, climbing stairs, jumping, doing pushups, but I do seem to tire out quickly. I have also seen no signs of atrophy.
My current symptoms are:
stiffness in calves and forearms. (right forearm worse then left)
twitching in my calves mainly, but also in forearms (mainly right one)
loss of appettite
A constant low fever aroung 99.4( listing this just because, may have no relevance)
can't stop concentrating on my illness
trouble staying still
Sorry for the long post and If I am being overly worrysome I don't mean to offend anyone who is seriously ill.
Questions I would have:
Do these twitches sound like ALS?
Would I experience more weakness or atrophy before the twitching began?
Would the twitching be more localized and spread out from there? because it has come on very quickly and had not been localized.
I am an 18 year old guy who has never had any serious health scares. For the past month and a half I have been to numerous doctors and I still have yet to be diagnosed. This whole thing started with sharp stabbing pains occurring throughout my body. These pains were quick and would come and go. Many times they occurred in my chest so I was given an ekg and a chest X-Ray. Both checked out normal. About a week after the tests had been run I started feeling very fatigued and my arms and legs both felt heavy. My doctor did a neurological exam and all checked out fine. I then saw another doctor who did a series of blood tests and has since checked me for lymes twice (negative both times) This weakness, continued for another two weeks along with some stiffness in my ankles, calves, and forearms. and I was still experiencing the sharp pains so my doctor sent me to do a brain ct scan. The ct scan showed nothing abnormal. In the past week since the brain scan the stiffness in my calves, and forearms has increased and I have started to get twitching constantly in my calves and sometimes in my forearms.
As I said this process has been going for about a month. This entire time I have been extremely stressed and worrysome. I am always looking on webmd, etc. for answers. The thing I am most worried about is the twitching in my calves and forearms. I am unsure if it stops, but when I move around the twitching is not noticable or much less noticable. Although my calves and forearms feel stiff I have no trouble walking, running, climbing stairs, jumping, doing pushups, but I do seem to tire out quickly. I have also seen no signs of atrophy.
My current symptoms are:
stiffness in calves and forearms. (right forearm worse then left)
twitching in my calves mainly, but also in forearms (mainly right one)
loss of appettite
A constant low fever aroung 99.4( listing this just because, may have no relevance)
can't stop concentrating on my illness
trouble staying still
Sorry for the long post and If I am being overly worrysome I don't mean to offend anyone who is seriously ill.
Questions I would have:
Do these twitches sound like ALS?
Would I experience more weakness or atrophy before the twitching began?
Would the twitching be more localized and spread out from there? because it has come on very quickly and had not been localized.