Funky92
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Hello everyone, at the beginning i'd like to apologise for my english as I am bot native speaker.
I am 30 years old, polish guy. What I am worried about are few of symptoms that I have had last month. Everything started in January when I felt dizzy for the first time when I was in the roundabout driving my bus. It seemed constant and didn't go away so I scheduled appointment with the internist. Doctor examined me and said It might be because of the stiffness in my neck or my vertebra because I am a bus driver and I sit a LOT. After week or two everything went back to normal.
Around month ago when walking into the kitchen I accidently kicked a kitchen island. Then after few days i started having this dizzy-feeling in my head which is kinda hard to explain. (like walking on the clouds ??) I also started having eye floaters in my left eye and my eyes became sensible to sunlight and any other kind of bright light. I started to check my symptoms in Google and found out it could be MS. I panicked so hard that I started to develop all other symptoms, like tingling (especially on the left side of my body), fatigue, insomnia, extreme sweating. Then i found a word "fasciculations" and I started going nuts.
They day after i started having twitches that have spreaded to my entire body. I was literally crying that day, when my wife went to work. I was 100% sure that I would die of ALS. Since that time I twitch everywhere but most on my calfs and thighs, also on my hands and arms, sometimes feet. My muscles feel tired and stiff, my joints in left leg hurt a bit and the veins on my left calf are more visible than on the right one. The left bottom part of my cheek and chin feels a bit numb but have no problems with articulation or swallowing (bulbar als concern here)
Went to ER 2 times to speak to a doctor but after examining me they told that there was no need to schedule an appointment with neuro. I don't know what to do at this point, I am trying not to think about this and even when I calm down a bit, the moment I feel another twitch I would just freak out. I think that I don't feel any clinical weakness, I can still walk on my heels or toes, I can still jump, button my jacket or tie shoes. What's more I can still drive a bus and even push the buttons to let passengers in and out yet still I am concerned.
Had a lot of stress last year. My wife misscarried 2 times, She is pregnant again and It's going pretty well but I am still stressed because of what has happened before. Another stress factor Is war in Ukraine that I read a lot about (my homeland shares It's borders with both Russia and Ukraine), stressfull job, COVID (me and my wife had It both at the end of January). Maybe I shouldn't have written about that all above like my personal situation, but I just needed to spit It out... I want to be a father and watch my little Sophia grow up. What do You guys think It might be? ALS or I am just freaking out and i should go to psychiatrist? I can't share all these concernes with my wife because I realy don't want Her to get stressed. Can someone please help me? Thanks in advance for Your replies.
Lucas
I am 30 years old, polish guy. What I am worried about are few of symptoms that I have had last month. Everything started in January when I felt dizzy for the first time when I was in the roundabout driving my bus. It seemed constant and didn't go away so I scheduled appointment with the internist. Doctor examined me and said It might be because of the stiffness in my neck or my vertebra because I am a bus driver and I sit a LOT. After week or two everything went back to normal.
Around month ago when walking into the kitchen I accidently kicked a kitchen island. Then after few days i started having this dizzy-feeling in my head which is kinda hard to explain. (like walking on the clouds ??) I also started having eye floaters in my left eye and my eyes became sensible to sunlight and any other kind of bright light. I started to check my symptoms in Google and found out it could be MS. I panicked so hard that I started to develop all other symptoms, like tingling (especially on the left side of my body), fatigue, insomnia, extreme sweating. Then i found a word "fasciculations" and I started going nuts.
They day after i started having twitches that have spreaded to my entire body. I was literally crying that day, when my wife went to work. I was 100% sure that I would die of ALS. Since that time I twitch everywhere but most on my calfs and thighs, also on my hands and arms, sometimes feet. My muscles feel tired and stiff, my joints in left leg hurt a bit and the veins on my left calf are more visible than on the right one. The left bottom part of my cheek and chin feels a bit numb but have no problems with articulation or swallowing (bulbar als concern here)
Went to ER 2 times to speak to a doctor but after examining me they told that there was no need to schedule an appointment with neuro. I don't know what to do at this point, I am trying not to think about this and even when I calm down a bit, the moment I feel another twitch I would just freak out. I think that I don't feel any clinical weakness, I can still walk on my heels or toes, I can still jump, button my jacket or tie shoes. What's more I can still drive a bus and even push the buttons to let passengers in and out yet still I am concerned.
Had a lot of stress last year. My wife misscarried 2 times, She is pregnant again and It's going pretty well but I am still stressed because of what has happened before. Another stress factor Is war in Ukraine that I read a lot about (my homeland shares It's borders with both Russia and Ukraine), stressfull job, COVID (me and my wife had It both at the end of January). Maybe I shouldn't have written about that all above like my personal situation, but I just needed to spit It out... I want to be a father and watch my little Sophia grow up. What do You guys think It might be? ALS or I am just freaking out and i should go to psychiatrist? I can't share all these concernes with my wife because I realy don't want Her to get stressed. Can someone please help me? Thanks in advance for Your replies.
Lucas