Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing good.
I want to share my story. I am a 31 year old male from Estonia, Europe. About a Month ago i started to have twitches. Firstly, really fast twitches in one area of my upper back but after few days the twitches moved all over my body - legs, hands, shoulders and eyes. Sometimes really rarely in the face ( no tounge twitches so far). About 7 days ago i started to feel my left hand a bit weak. It is a strange feeling, it is not stiff but like the similar feeling to when you have had a workout at gym. One day i lifted a glass of water and my hand was shaking. I feel like i dont have strength in my shoulder. Also, during my sleep i have had many occasions where my hand/shoulder dies although on some of these occasions i was sleeping on my back and one night i had a short period of pain near my right hands wrist.
I have had my cervical spine mri, and they found that i have muscle atrophy/fatty in my L5-S1 paraspinal muscle. I Googled it yesterday and i am so terrified because i found out that muscle atrophy and increase of fatty is exactly caused by ALS. I have my ENMG coming up on 27 april.
I started to have muscle twitches 1-2 days after i went to have a massage after quite a while. At first i thought maybe i had my symptoms because of that.
Also i have had low back pain for quite a while and some symptoms(atrophy/fatty) may be connected to this but i didnt find any connection between my hand weakness and low back pain...
I am really terrified because i have a pregnant girlriend who will give a birth to our first baby and i might have a conditions like this...
To add to my previous post, i have often pins and needles in my leg whenever i am in a bit different position. I also have had a few episodes where i feel numbness in my leg just for a short brief moment
I want to share my story. I am a 31 year old male from Estonia, Europe. About a Month ago i started to have twitches. Firstly, really fast twitches in one area of my upper back but after few days the twitches moved all over my body - legs, hands, shoulders and eyes. Sometimes really rarely in the face ( no tounge twitches so far). About 7 days ago i started to feel my left hand a bit weak. It is a strange feeling, it is not stiff but like the similar feeling to when you have had a workout at gym. One day i lifted a glass of water and my hand was shaking. I feel like i dont have strength in my shoulder. Also, during my sleep i have had many occasions where my hand/shoulder dies although on some of these occasions i was sleeping on my back and one night i had a short period of pain near my right hands wrist.
I have had my cervical spine mri, and they found that i have muscle atrophy/fatty in my L5-S1 paraspinal muscle. I Googled it yesterday and i am so terrified because i found out that muscle atrophy and increase of fatty is exactly caused by ALS. I have my ENMG coming up on 27 april.
I started to have muscle twitches 1-2 days after i went to have a massage after quite a while. At first i thought maybe i had my symptoms because of that.
Also i have had low back pain for quite a while and some symptoms(atrophy/fatty) may be connected to this but i didnt find any connection between my hand weakness and low back pain...
I am really terrified because i have a pregnant girlriend who will give a birth to our first baby and i might have a conditions like this...
To add to my previous post, i have often pins and needles in my leg whenever i am in a bit different position. I also have had a few episodes where i feel numbness in my leg just for a short brief moment
