donnaMarie
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Hello and thank you for these forums. God bless every person journeying through ALS. A dear friend of mine lost her mom to it. YOU all are the bravest people I have ever witnessed. I have read the READ BEFORE POSTING and I am grateful for some clarifications in that post. My situation, however, is not really answered there that I can tell.
I am 58 years old (female). I started noticing a strange intermittent buzzing sensation in my right foot (inside side of foot near heal) about 6 days ago. It comes for 3 or 4 seconds and then stops for a second or two and then repeats non-stop. At first I completely ignored it thinking it was a pair of shoes I had worn or something. but it has become so distracting. So, yesterday I tried to watch it to see if I can see it from the outside. While I cannot see the intermittent buzzing or vibrating or whatever it is, I noticed lots of on-going twitching that was really pronounced just in front of the buzzing on the side of my inner foot. I hadn't really felt the twitching because I wasn't paying that close of attention, but now that I have seen it, I notice I can feel the bigger twitches but not the small one.
Can this combination of symptoms (in one specific spot like this) be a very early symptom of ALS? I do not want to go through the drama of EMGs and Neuros (I've read some of those threads and the poor folks sound tortured and I feel very sad for them). But, if this is concerning in the opinion of those with experience here, I'd like to know. Thanks you in advance.
I am 58 years old (female). I started noticing a strange intermittent buzzing sensation in my right foot (inside side of foot near heal) about 6 days ago. It comes for 3 or 4 seconds and then stops for a second or two and then repeats non-stop. At first I completely ignored it thinking it was a pair of shoes I had worn or something. but it has become so distracting. So, yesterday I tried to watch it to see if I can see it from the outside. While I cannot see the intermittent buzzing or vibrating or whatever it is, I noticed lots of on-going twitching that was really pronounced just in front of the buzzing on the side of my inner foot. I hadn't really felt the twitching because I wasn't paying that close of attention, but now that I have seen it, I notice I can feel the bigger twitches but not the small one.
Can this combination of symptoms (in one specific spot like this) be a very early symptom of ALS? I do not want to go through the drama of EMGs and Neuros (I've read some of those threads and the poor folks sound tortured and I feel very sad for them). But, if this is concerning in the opinion of those with experience here, I'd like to know. Thanks you in advance.
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