eyeballs
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Hello all, and a sincere thank you for being here and sharing your thoughts--
I am curious to hear about your experience with paresthesias (burning pain, tingling, or numbness) in ALS/MND. Have any of you had paresthesias as the first symptom of ALS or other MND? How would you describe them, and how long was it before motor symptoms appeared?
Me, I'm a somewhere-between-alarmed-and-panicked 41 year-old dad and veteran who's had patchy, relatively mild burning-tingle sensations over the last 9 months that would come and go often in the same area (medial thigh, left flank, back of the left hand) lasting several hours to several days. 3 months ago saw the start of constant soreness and occasional spasms in both forearms. Over the last several weeks now I have felt frequent fasciculations present in all extremities and also the torso. There's no appreciable weakness, except trouble typing (due to sore forearms?) and maybe a new "slushing" of some of my 's'es. Reflexes are "brisk" but "normal" per neurologist, MRI brain/c-spine and lab workup were unremarkable; EMG is pending.
Thoughts? Impressions? Any similar folks out there that started with sensory-only symptoms?
Best wishes to all,
S
I am curious to hear about your experience with paresthesias (burning pain, tingling, or numbness) in ALS/MND. Have any of you had paresthesias as the first symptom of ALS or other MND? How would you describe them, and how long was it before motor symptoms appeared?
Me, I'm a somewhere-between-alarmed-and-panicked 41 year-old dad and veteran who's had patchy, relatively mild burning-tingle sensations over the last 9 months that would come and go often in the same area (medial thigh, left flank, back of the left hand) lasting several hours to several days. 3 months ago saw the start of constant soreness and occasional spasms in both forearms. Over the last several weeks now I have felt frequent fasciculations present in all extremities and also the torso. There's no appreciable weakness, except trouble typing (due to sore forearms?) and maybe a new "slushing" of some of my 's'es. Reflexes are "brisk" but "normal" per neurologist, MRI brain/c-spine and lab workup were unremarkable; EMG is pending.
Thoughts? Impressions? Any similar folks out there that started with sensory-only symptoms?
Best wishes to all,
S